pinealoctomy

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pinealoctomy

  1. Misspelling of pinealectomy.
    • 2015 July 28, Carlos A. Salas et al., “Ontogenetic shifts in brain scaling reflect behavioral changes in the life cycle of the pouched lamprey Geotria australis”, in Frontiers in Neuroscience[1], volume 9, →DOI:
      In this regard, it was shown that metamorphosis was prevented with pinealoctomy in G. australis and other species (Eddy and Strahan, 1968 ; Cole and Youson, 1981 ), and maturation was delayed in adults of the river lamprey Lampetra fluviatilis after the same procedure (Eddy, 1971 ).