A bony connection signals laryngeal echolocation in bats

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7283, 2010, Pages 939-942

  Veselka, Nina ^a   McErlain, David D ^a,b   Holdsworth, David W ^a,c   Eger, Judith L ^d   Chhem, Rethy K ^e,f   Mason, Matthew J ^g   Brain, Kirsty L ^g   Faure, Paul A ^h   Fenton, M Brock ^a  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; BAT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BONE; BRAIN; DATA ACQUISITION; ECHOLOCATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; FRUGIVORY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; IMAGE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BAT; BONE STRUCTURE; ECHOLOCATION; FOSSIL ANIMAL; HYOID BONE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE CONDUCTION; CHIROPTERA; EAR; ECHOLOCATION; EVOLUTION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOSSILS; LARYNX; ORIENTATION; SKULL; TONGUE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PTEROPODIDAE;

EID: 77249131705     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08737     Document Type: Article

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