Lungfishes, like tetrapods, possess a vomeronasal system
The vomeronasal system (VNS) is an accessory olfactory system that in tetrapod vertebrates is composed of specific receptors neurons in the nasal organ and a set of centers in the forebrain that receive and relay the information consecutively towards the hypothalamus. Thus, only in tetrapods the VNS...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2010-09-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Neuroanatomy |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnana.2010.00130/full |