Jingchen Chen, Chengjuan Gao , Zhongtian Bai and Jianlin Wang
Key Lab of Arid and Grassland Agroecology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences,
Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, P. R. China
ABSTRACT
The morphology of the brain of bactrian camel. The results showed that the near term camel foetus was studied and compared with brain of adult had a relatively mature brain about 50% the size of the adult’s. The cerebellum was about 40% of that of the adult in weight. The pituitary was large, with about 67% the length of the adult’s in diameter. Yet the surface area of the cerebrum and area of corpus callosum on sagittal surface were relatively small, of which both ratios to those of the adult were about 1: 3. Unlike, the adult, the olfactory bulb was invisible from dorsal view and the sulci on the surface of the brain were not as deep as the adult’s. Besides, the brain stem had a remarkable downward inclination.
Key words: Bactrian camel, brain, development, morphology
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