Catapulting Tentacles in a Sticky Carnivorous Plant

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Poppinga, Simon ^a   Hartmeyer, Siegfried Richard Heinrich ^b   Seidel, Robin ^a   Masselter, Tom ^a   Hartmeyer, Irmgard ^b   Speck, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CARNIVOROUS PLANT; CARNIVORY; DROSERA; INSECT; LASER PRESSURE CATAPULTING; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STRUCTURES; PREY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; CARNIVORY; DIPTERA; DROSERA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTION; MOVEMENT; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; DROSERA; DROSERA GLANDULIGERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84866877456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045735     Document Type: Article

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