The origin of the cranial ganglia in ameiurus
The origin of the cranial ganglia in ameiurus
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阿梅鲁斯颅神经节的起源
DOI:
10.1002/cne.920200404
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发表时间:
1910
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通讯作者:
F. L. Landacre
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作者:
F. L. Landacre
310 FL LANDACRE standing the enormous amount of labor expended on this problem, it can hardly be said that there is any general agreement among workers as to the mode of origin or fundamental relationships of the various cerebral nerves to each other. The lack of agreement may be traced to several causes aside from the difficulty inherent in the problem. Chief among these causes must be placed the subordination of the study of the cerebral nerves to more general problems, such as the metamerism of the vertebrate head and the relation of the head to the trunk. These fundamental problems have been a source of intense interest to both morphologists and embryologists and it was only natural that the cerebral nerves should be used as a means of shedding light on them, even when the origin, composition and distribution of the nerves were not accurately known. Owing to this method of approach, however, students of the cerebral nerves were for a long time handicapped by preconceived notions as to the relations which ought to exist between the trunks of the cerebral nerves and the various head segments. The idea of the serial homology of the cerebral nerves has been in a sense a barrier to a clear understanding of their true relationships. The chief function of the nervous system as a coördinating mechanism was lost sight of in the attempt to reduce the cerebral nerves to some fundamental type that would bring them into harmony with each other and with the spinal nerves. Some such fundamental relationship among the cerebral nerves as that involved in the idea of serial homology probably existed in a primitive vertebrate; but the cerebral nerves of the Ichthyopsida are not most easily understood on such a basis. The fundamental needs of the organism have so modified this primitive type that it is much easier and more in accord with the facts to take some functional unit, such as a sensory system, as a basis for the analysis of the cerebral nerves. The fundamental difficulty in the attempt to homologize the trunks of the cerebral nerves comes from the fact that they are not units but composite in nature, so that the components of which they are made up furnish the logical basis for getting at their true relationships.