Greater addition of neurons to the olfactory bulb than to the cerebral cortex of eulipotyphlans but not rodents, afrotherians or primates

• Egile Nagusiak: Pedro Furtado De Mattos Ribeiro (Egilea), Paul eManger (Egilea), Kenneth C Catania (Egilea), Jon H Kaas (Egilea), Suzana eHerculano-Houzel (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: Frontiers Media S.A., 2014-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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The olfactory bulb is an evolutionarily old structure that antedates the appearance of a six-layered mammalian cerebral cortex. As such, the neuronal scaling rules that apply to scaling the mass of the olfactory bulb as a function of its number of neurons might be shared across mammalian groups, as...