The Anatomy of the bill Tip of Kiwi and Associated Somatosensory Regions of the Brain: Comparisons with Shorebirds

Three families of probe-foraging birds, Scolopacidae (sandpipers and snipes), Apterygidae (kiwi), and Threskiornithidae (ibises, including spoonbills) have independently evolved long, narrow bills containing clusters of vibration-sensitive mechanoreceptors (Herbst corpuscles) within pits in the bill...

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Autores principales: Cunningham, Susan J., Corfield, Jeremy R., Iwaniuk, Andrew N., Castro, Isabel, Alley, Maurice R., Birkhead, Tim R., Parsons, Stuart
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24244601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080036

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24244601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080036

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