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Active vibrissal sensing in rodents and marsupials

In rats, the long facial whiskers (mystacial macrovibrissae) are repetitively and rapidly swept back and forth during exploration in a behaviour known as ‘whisking’. In this paper, we summarize previous evidence from rats, and present new data for rat, mouse and the marsupial grey short-tailed oposs...

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Main Authors: Mitchinson, Ben, Grant, Robyn A., Arkley, Kendra, Rankov, Vladan, Perkon, Igor, Prescott, Tony J.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172598/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21969685
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0156
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