Vertebrate brains and evolutionary connectomics: On the origins of the mammalian ‘neocortex’

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1684, 2015, Pages

  Karten, Harvey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Birds; Microcircuitry; Nuclear to laminar transformation; Radial columns; Reptiles

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIRD; BRAIN; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HOMOLOGY; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REPTILE;

AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; NEOCORTEX; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; NEOCORTEX; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84946811178     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0060     Document Type: Review

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