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Knowing when to stick: touch receptors found in the remora adhesive disc

Remoras are fishes that piggyback onto larger marine fauna via an adhesive disc to increase locomotor efficiency, likelihood of finding mates and access to prey. Attaching rapidly to a large, fast-moving host is no easy task, and while research to date has focused on how the disc supports adhesion,...

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Autores principales: Cohen, Karly E., Flammang, Brooke E., Crawford, Callie H., Hernandez, L. Patricia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7029896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32218935
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190990

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