Discovery of a sensory organ that coordinates lunge feeding in rorqual whales

Nature

Volumn 485, Issue 7399, 2012, Pages 498-501

  Pyenson, Nicholas D ^a,b   Goldbogen, Jeremy A ^c   Vogl, A Wayne ^d   Szathmary, Gabor ^e   Drake, Richard L ^f   Shadwick, Robert E ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture   (United States)

^c CASCADIA RESEARCH COLLECTIVE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e FPINNOVATIONS   (Canada)

^f CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; HISTOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATRIX; MORPHOLOGY; OLIGOCENE; PARADIGM SHIFT; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPECIALIZATION; WHALE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BALAENOPTERA PHYSALUS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FEEDING; FIBROCARTILAGE; GEL; HISTOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; JAW; KINEMATICS; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOUTH; NERVE; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSE ORGAN; TOOTH SOCKET; VASCULAR TISSUE; WHALE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BALAENOPTERA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; JAW; ROTATION; SENSE ORGANS;

BALAENOPTERIDAE; CETACEA; MYSTICETI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84861433403     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11135     Document Type: Article

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