Innervation Patterns of Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) Mystacial Follicle-Sinus Complexes

Innervation Patterns of Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) Mystacial Follicle-Sinus Complexes

Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) are the most recent group of mammals to return to the sea, and may exemplify divergent somatosensory tactile systems among mammals. Therefore, we quantified the mystacial vibrissal array of sea otters and histologically processed follicle-sinus complexes (F-SCs) to test...

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Main Authors: Christopher Douglas Marshall, Kelly eRozas, Brian eKot, Verena eGill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
Subjects:
Otters
Peripheral Nervous System
Vibrissae
marine mammals
comparative neurobiology
somatosensory system
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnana.2014.00121/full

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