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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...
Autores principales: | Cunningham, Susan J., Corfield, Jeremy R., Iwaniuk, Andrew N., Castro, Isabel, Alley, Maurice R., Birkhead, Tim R., Parsons, Stuart |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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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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