Conserved cell types with divergent features in human versus mouse cortex

Nature

Volumn 573, Issue 7772, 2019, Pages 61-68

  Hodge, Rebecca D ^a   Bakken, Trygve E ^a   Miller, Jeremy A ^a   Smith, Kimberly A ^a   Barkan, Eliza R ^a   Graybuck, Lucas T ^a   Close, Jennie L ^a   Long, Brian ^a   Johansen, Nelson ^b   Penn, Osnat ^a   Yao, Zizhen ^a   Eggermont, Jeroen ^c   Höllt, Thomas ^c,d   Levi, Boaz P ^a   Shehata, Soraya I ^a   Aevermann, Brian ^e   Beller, Allison ^f   Bertagnolli, Darren ^a   Brouner, Krissy ^a   Casper, Tamara ^a   Cobbs, Charles ^g   Dalley, Rachel ^a   Dee, Nick ^a   Ding, Song Lin ^a   Ellenbogen, Richard G ^h   Fong, Olivia ^a   Garren, Emma ^a   Goldy, Jeff ^a   Gwinn, Ryder P ^g   Hirschstein, Daniel ^a   Keene, C Dirk ^f   Keshk, Mohamed ^e   Ko, Andrew L ^h,i   Lathia, Kanan ^a   Mahfouz, Ahmed ^c,d   Maltzer, Zoe ^a   McGraw, Medea ^a   Nguyen, Thuc Nghi ^a   Nyhus, Julie ^a   Ojemann, Jeffrey G ^h,i   Oldre, Aaron ^a   Parry, Sheana ^a   Reynolds, Shannon ^a   Rimorin, Christine ^a   Shapovalova, Nadiya V ^a   Somasundaram, Saroja ^a   Szafer, Aaron ^a   Thomsen, Elliot R ^a   Tieu, Michael ^a   Quon, Gerald ^b   Scheuermann, Richard H ^e,j   Yuste, Rafael ^k   Sunkin, Susan M ^a   Lelieveldt, Boudewijn ^c,d   Feng, David ^a   Ng, Lydia ^a   Bernard, Amy ^a   Hawrylycz, Michael ^a   Phillips, John W ^a   Tasic, Bosiljka ^a   Zeng, Hongkui ^a   Jones, Allan R ^a   Koch, Christof ^a   Lein, Ed S ^a   more..

^a ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELL; COGNITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMOLOGY; INHIBITION; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY NEURON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INHIBITORY NEURON; LAMINAR DISTRIBUTION; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RNA-SEQ; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85071326152     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1506-7     Document Type: Article

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