Real-world challenges to, and capabilities of, the gekkotan adhesive system: Contrasting the rough and the smooth

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1228-1238

  Russell, A P ^a   Johnson, M K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; TOPOLOGY;

GEKKOTAN ADHESIVE SYSTEM; GEKKOTAN LIZARDS; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; ROCK SURFACES;

MICROTRONS;

ADAPTATION; ADHESION; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; ROCK MICROSTRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

GEKKONIDAE; RHOPTROPUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 39849088780     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z07-103     Document Type: Article

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