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Sex-Related Effects in the Superhydrophobic Properties of Damselfly Wings in Young and Old Calopteryx splendens

Numerous sex-related morphological adaptations are connected to reproductive behavior in animals. For example, females of some insect species can submerge during oviposition, which may lead to sex-related adaptations in the hydrophobicity (water-repellency) due to specialization of certain morpholog...

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Autores principales: Kuitunen, Katja, Kovalev, Alexander, Gorb, Stanislav N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3919810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24520406
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088627