Cellular scaling rules for the brain of afrotherians

• Main Authors: Kleber eNeves (Author), Fernanda eMeireles Ferreira (Author), Fernanda eTovar-Moll (Author), Nadine eGravett (Author), Nigel C Bennett (Author), Consolate eKaswera (Author), Emmanuel eGilissen (Author), Paul eManger (Author), Suzana eHerculano-Houzel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Quantitative analysis of the cellular composition of rodent, primate and eulipotyphlan brains has shown that nonneuronal scaling rules are similar across these mammalian orders that diverged about 95 million years ago, and therefore appear to be conserved in evolution, while neuronal scaling rules a...