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Role of ecology in shaping external nasal morphology in bats and implications for olfactory tracking

Many animals display morphological adaptations of the nose that improve their ability to detect and track odors. Bilateral odor sampling improves an animals’ ability to navigate using olfaction and increased separation of the nostrils facilitates olfactory source localization. Many bats use odors to...

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Autores principales: Brokaw, Alyson F., Smotherman, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6948747/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31914127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226689