Butterfly proboscis: Combining a drinking straw with a nanosponge facilitated diversification of feeding habits

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 69, 2012, Pages 720-726

  Monaenkova, Daria ^a   Lehnert, Matthew S ^a   Andrukh, Taras ^a   Beard, Charles E ^a   Rubin, Binyamin ^a   Tokarev, Alexander ^a   Lee, Wah Keat ^b   Adler, Peter H ^a   Kornev, Konstantin G ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillarity; Flexible microfluidics; Lepidoptera; Permeability; Plateau instability; Porous materials

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; FEEDING HABITS; LEPIDOPTERA; LIQUID BRIDGE; MICRO-SCALES; POROUS SUBSTRATES; STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION; TWO-STEP MODEL; WET SOIL; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING;

LIQUIDS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; BUTTERFLY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HEAD; INTESTINE; LIQUID; MOUTH; MUSCLE; NANODEVICE; NANOPORE; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; POROSITY; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUCTION; X RAY;

APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 84856501119     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0392     Document Type: Review

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