Testing hypotheses of developmental constraints on mammalian brain partition evolution, using marsupials

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Carlisle, Alison ^a   Selwood, Lynne ^b   Hinds, Lyn A ^c   Saunders, Norman ^b   Habgood, Mark ^b   Mardon, Karine ^a   Weisbecker, Vera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN SIZE; EXPECTATION; GROWTH ACCELERATION; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; HYDROGEL; MARSUPIAL; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MODEL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; RIGIDITY; SPECIES; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CEREBELLUM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MAMMAL; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL DIMETHACRYLATE HYDROGEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CEREBELLUM; HUMANS; HYDROGEL, POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL DIMETHACRYLATE; MAMMALS; MARSUPIALIA; NEUROGENESIS; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 85021639361     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-02726-9     Document Type: Article

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