Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Amount

$766,025.00

Award Date

8/06/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

A common perception is that sharks are small-brained animals with a limited behavioral repertoire. Recent research has been dispelling these myths and has found that sharks possess brains that are of comparable size to birds and mammals. One brain structu