From sauropsids to mammals and back: New approaches to comparative cortical development

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 524, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 630-645

  Montiel, Juan F ^a,b   Vasistha, Navneet A ^a,c   Garcia Moreno, Fernando ^a   Molnár, Zoltán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Dorsal ventricular ridge; Intermediate progenitors; Progenitors; Subventricular (outer) radial glia; Subventricular zone; Transcriptomics; Ventricular radial glia; Wulst

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAUROPSID; SPECIES COMPARISON; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEURONS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84953636995     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23871     Document Type: Review

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