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A snail-eating snake recognizes prey handedness

Specialized predator-prey interactions can be a driving force for their coevolution. Southeast Asian snail-eating snakes (Pareas) have more teeth on the right mandible and specialize in predation on the clockwise-coiled (dextral) majority in shelled snails by soft-body extraction. Snails have counte...

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Autores principales: Danaisawadi, Patchara, Asami, Takahiro, Ota, Hidetoshi, Sutcharit, Chirasak, Panha, Somsak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4820687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27046345
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep23832

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