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Sticky Gecko Feet: The Role of Temperature and Humidity

Gecko adhesion is expected to be temperature insensitive over the range of temperatures typically experienced by geckos. Previous work is limited and equivocal on whether this expectation holds. We tested the temperature dependence of adhesion in Tokay and Day geckos and found that clinging ability...

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Autores principales: Niewiarowski, Peter H., Lopez, Stephanie, Ge, Liehui, Hagan, Emily, Dhinojwala, Ali
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2364659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18478106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002192