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What Determines Motor Neuron Number? Slow Scaling of Facial Motor Neuron Numbers With Body Mass in Marsupials and Primates

Date

Authors

Watson, Charles

Provis, Jan

Herculano-Houzel, Suzana

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Abstract

How does the number of motor neurons in the brain correlate with the muscle mass to be controlled in the body? Numbers of motor neurons are known to be adjusted during development by cell death, but the change in the percentage of surviving motor neurons

Keywords

Keywords: animal cell; animal tissue; article; body mass; body weight; cell count; correlation analysis; facial nerve nucleus; female; male; marsupial; motoneuron; muscle mass; nonhuman; primate; priority journal; quantitative analysis; spinal cord motoneuron; Anim Facial nucleus; Marsupial; Motor neuron; Scaling rule

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/68235

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

The Anatomical Record

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1002/ar.22547

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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