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Nectar uptake in bats using a pumping-tongue mechanism

Many insects use nectar as their principal diet and have mouthparts specialized in nectarivory, whereas most nectar-feeding vertebrates are opportunistic users of floral resources and only a few species show distinct morphological specializations. Specialized nectar-feeding bats extract nectar from...

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Autores principales: Tschapka, Marco, Gonzalez-Terrazas, Tania P., Knörnschild, Mirjam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4643790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26601270
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500525