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Extreme suction attachment performance from specialised insects living in mountain streams (Diptera: Blephariceridae)

Suction is widely used by animals for strong controllable underwater adhesion but is less well understood than adhesion of terrestrial climbing animals. Here we investigate the attachment of aquatic insect larvae (Blephariceridae), which cling to rocks in torrential streams using the only known musc...

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Autores principales: Kang, Victor, White, Robin T, Chen, Simon, Federle, Walter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8565926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34731079
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63250

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