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2016
Journal article
Best practices for digitally constructing endocranial casts: examples from birds and their dinosaurian relatives
The rapidly expanding interest in, and availability of, digital tomography data to visualize casts of the vertebrate endocranial cavity housing the brain (endocasts) presents new opportunities and challenges to the field of comparative neuroanatomy. The opportunities are many, ranging from the relatively rapid acquisition of data to the unprecedented ability...Balanoff, Amy M ; Bever, G S ; Colbert, Matthew W ; Clarke, Julia A ; Field, Daniel J …
brain, Aves, endocast, comparative neuroanatomy, and computed tomography
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2012
Journal article
Evolution of the brain and sensory organs in Sphenisciformes: new data from the stem penguin Paraptenodytes antarcticus
Penguins have undergone dramatic changes associated with the evolution of underwater flight and subsequent loss of aerial flight, which are manifest and well documented in the musculoskeletal system and integument. Significant modification of neurosensory systems and endocranial spaces may also be expected along this locomotor transition. However, no investigations of...Ksepka, D T ; Balanoff, Amy M ; Walsh, Stig A ; Revan, A ; Ho, A
Spheniscidae, palaeoneurology, computed tomography, and neuroanatomy