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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...
Autores principales: | Tschapka, Marco, Gonzalez-Terrazas, Tania P., Knörnschild, Mirjam |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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