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Monotremes Get a Head Start: A Detailed Neurobiology of the Platypus and Echidna.

NEUROBIOLOGY OF MONOTREMES: BRAIN EVOLUTION IN OUR DISTANT MAMMALIAN COUSINS. Edited by K. W. S. Ashwell. Collingwood, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. 2013. 522 pp., US$ 250 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-643-10311-5.

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  1. Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology, University of Louisville, 511 South Floyd, Louisville, KY, 40202, USA

    Guillermo W. Rougier, Bart G. Borghuis & Jeffrey C. Petruska

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Rougier, G.W., Borghuis, B.G. & Petruska, J.C. Monotremes Get a Head Start: A Detailed Neurobiology of the Platypus and Echidna.. J Mammal Evol 23, 117–118 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-015-9303-z

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