Development of the Cetacean Nasal Skull /
Morphogeny of the nasal skull was investigated in 92 embryos of 13 species of Cetacea. Compared to the original nasal capsule of land mammals, the nasal structures of Cetacea show many weighty transformations. As a result, the nostrils are translocated from the tip of the snout to the vertex of the...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
1999.
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| Series: | Advances in anatomy, embryology, and cell biology ;
149. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Material and methods
- Synopsis of structures of the embryonic nasal skull
- Morphogeny of the nasal skull
- Metamorphosis and translocation of the nasal structures
- Comparison of the embryonic nasal structures
- The Nasal structures of adult Cetacea
- Evolutional and functional relationships
- The systematics of Cetacea according to the morphogeny of their nasal skull
- Summary
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Subject index
- Abbreviations.