What noseleaves do for FM bats depends on their degree of sensorial specialization

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Vanderelst, Dieter ^a   de Mey, Fons ^a   Peremans, Herbert ^a   Geipel, Inga ^b   Kalko, Elisabeth ^b,c   Firzlaff, Uwe ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; MICRONYCTERIS MICROTIS; NONHUMAN; NOSELEAF; PHYLLOSTOMUS DISCOLOR; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION ENERGY; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NOSE; PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; EAR; HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION; HEARING; LIGHT INTENSITY; MORPHOLOGY; NEW WORLD NOSE LEAF BAT; SIMULATION; SOUND RELATED PHENOMENA; SPATIAL SENSITIVITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; MICRONYCTERIS MICROTIS; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE; PHYLLOSTOMUS DISCOLOR;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CUES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NOSE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 77957583870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011893     Document Type: Article

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