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Motor Patterns Dedicated to Sensory Functions

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This paper started out to be a review of our recent work on snake chemoreception (Chiszar et al., 1983a, b, 1984, 1985; O’Connell et al., 1985, Radcliffe et al., 1983, 1984, 1985), but it has metamorphosed into a theoretical presentation which I hope will be of general interest to chemical ecologists and sensory physiologists. The main idea will be brought into focus by describing a survey of experiments reported in Muller-Schwarze and Silverstein (1980).

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Chiszar, D. (1986). Motor Patterns Dedicated to Sensory Functions. In: Duvall, D., Müller-Schwarze, D., Silverstein, R.M. (eds) Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2235-1_4

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