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Functional Surfaces in Biology - Adhesion Related Phenomena Volume 2
von: Stanislav N. Gorb
Springer-Verlag, 2009
ISBN: 9781402066955 , 268 Seiten
Format: PDF
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Preis: 149,79 EUR
Abstract
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Editor
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Contributors
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Introduction Adhesion Enhancement and Reduction in Biological Surfaces
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1 The Echinoderm Tube Foot and its Role in Temporary Underwater Adhesion
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2 Mechanisms and Principles Underlying Temporary Adhesion, Surface Exploration and Settlement Site Selection by Barnacle Cyprids: A Short Review
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3 Alternative Tasks of the Insect Arolium with Special Reference to Hymenoptera
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4 Organs of Adhesion in Some Mountain-stream Teleosts of India: Structure- Function Relationship
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5 Surface Characteristics of Locomotor Substrata and Their Relationship to Gekkonid Adhesion: A Case Study of Rhoptropus cf biporosus
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6 Variable Attachment to Plant Surface Waxes by Predatory Insects
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7 The Waxy Surface in Nepenthes Pitcher Plants: Variability, Adaptive Significance and Developmental Evolution
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8 Functional Surfaces in the Pitcher of the Carnivorous Plant Nepenthes alata: A Cryo- Sem Approach
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Color Plates
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Index
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