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The Advantages of a Tapered Whisker

The role of facial vibrissae (whiskers) in the behavior of terrestrial mammals is principally as a supplement or substitute for short-distance vision. Each whisker in the array functions as a mechanical transducer, conveying forces applied along the shaft to mechanoreceptors in the follicle at the w...

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Autori principali: Williams, Christopher M., Kramer, Eric M.
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Public Library of Science 2010
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2808387/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20098714
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008806
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