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SUBMITTER: Liu HQ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5155579 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu He-Qun HQ Wei Jing-Kuan JK Li Bo B Wang Ming-Shan MS Wu Rui-Qi RQ Rizak Joshua D JD Zhong Li L Wang Lu L Xu Fu-Qiang FQ Shen Yong-Yi YY Hu Xin-Tian XT Zhang Ya-Ping YP
Scientific reports 20150623
Dim-light vision is present in all bats, but is divergent among species. Old-World fruit bats (Pteropodidae) have fully developed eyes; the eyes of insectivorous bats are generally degraded, and these bats rely on well-developed echolocation. An exception is the Emballonuridae, which are capable of laryngeal echolocation but prefer to use vision for navigation and have normal eyes. In this study, integrated methods, comprising manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MEMRI), f-VEP and RNA- ...[more]