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Moisture harvesting and water transport through specialized micro-structures on the integument of lizards

Several lizard species that live in arid areas have developed special abilities to collect water with their bodies' surfaces and to ingest the so collected moisture. This is called rain- or moisture-harvesting. The water can originate from air humidity, fog, dew, rain or even from humid soil. T...

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Autores principales: Comanns, Philipp, Effertz, Christian, Hischen, Florian, Staudt, Konrad, Böhme, Wolfgang, Baumgartner, Werner
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Beilstein-Institut 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3148043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21977432
http://dx.doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.2.24