Reduced performance of prey targeting in pit vipers with contralaterally occluded infrared and visual senses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Qin ^a,b   Deng, Huanhuan ^a,d   Brauth, Steven E ^c   Ding, Li ^a   Tang, Yezhong ^a  

^a CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d CHONGQING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLAYDIUS BREVICAUDUS; INFRARED RADIATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PREY; PREY TARGETING; SHORT TAILED PIT VIPER; SNAKE; VIPERA; VISION; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; ANIMAL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SENSATION; SENSE ORGAN; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VIPERIDAE;

CROTALINAE; GLOYDIUS BLOMHOFFI BREVICAUDUS; SERPENTES;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; INFRARED RAYS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SENSATION; SENSE ORGANS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VIPERIDAE; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84860994248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034989     Document Type: Article

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