Repeated origin and loss of adhesive toepads in Geckos

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Gamble, Tony ^a   Greenbaum, Eli ^b,d   Jackman, Todd R ^b   Russell, Anthony P ^c   Bauer, Aaron M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE TOEPAD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GECKO; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TOE;

ADHESIVENESS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; LIZARDS; PHYLOGENY; TOES;

GEKKONIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84862993904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039429     Document Type: Article

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