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Discovery of a Novel Accessory Structure of the Pitviper Infrared Receptor Organ (Serpentes: Viperidae)

The facial pits of rattlesnakes, copperheads, lanceheads, bushmasters and other American and Asian pitvipers (Crotalinae) are highly innervated and densely vascularized infrared (IR) receptor organs. For over a century, studies have focused on a small sample of model species from North America and A...

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Autores principales: Bolívar-G, Wilmar, Antoniazzi, Marta M., Grant, Taran, Jared, Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3942465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24595025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090622