Self-Drying: A Gecko's Innate Ability to Remove Water from Wet Toe Pads

When the adhesive toe pads of geckos become wet, they become ineffective in enabling geckos to stick to substrates. This result is puzzling given that many species of gecko are endemic to tropical environments where water covered surfaces are ubiquitous. We hypothesized that geckos can recover adhes...

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Autores principales: Stark, Alyssa Y., Wucinich, Nicholas A., Paoloni, Eva L., Niewiarowski, Peter H., Dhinojwala, Ali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4108337/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25054217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101885

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4108337/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25054217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101885

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