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Independent Losses of Visual Perception Genes Gja10 and Rbp3 in Echolocating Bats (Order: Chiroptera)

A trade-off between the sensory modalities of vision and hearing is likely to have occurred in echolocating bats as the sophisticated mechanism of laryngeal echolocation requires considerable neural processing and has reduced the reliance of echolocating bats on vision for perceiving the environment...

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Autores principales: Shen, Bin, Fang, Tao, Dai, Mengyao, Jones, Gareth, Zhang, Shuyi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3715546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23874796
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068867