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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2014
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| 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 |