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Specialized bat tongue is a hemodynamic nectar mop
Nectarivorous birds and bats have evolved highly specialized tongues to gather nectar from flowers. Here, we show that a nectar-feeding bat, Glossophaga soricina, uses dynamic erectile papillae to collect nectar. In G. soricina, the tip of the tongue is covered with long filamentous papillae and res...
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| Formato: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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National Academy of Sciences
2013
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| Acesso em linha: | https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3670378/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23650382 https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1222726110 |
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