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 Giffin, Emily B.; Gillett, Michelle (detail)
   
1996
Neurological and osteological definitions of cervical vertebrae in mammals.
Brain Behav. Evol. 47(4): 214-218. 3 figs.
–Concludes from dissections of T. manatus cervical nerves that the presence of only six cervical vertebrae in manatees reflects a developmentally early reorganization of predetermined cervical mesoderm into fewer segments, rather than ontogenetic elimination of a vertebra without corresponding reduction of spinal root number. The relationship of the limb and its innervation to the cervical-thoracic boundary has not been altered.

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Brain and Nervous System
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs)
  x 1996 Giffin & Gillett (TM; homologies of cervical nerves & vertebrae; 214-218.)
Skeleton
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
  x * 1996 Giffin & Gillett (TM; homologies of cervical nerves & vertebrae; 214-218.)
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 1996 Giffin & Gillett (TM; homologies of cervical nerves & vertebrae; 214-218.)

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