Unique Structural Features Facilitate Lizard Tail Autotomy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Sanggaard, Kristian W ^a   Danielsen, Carl Chr ^b   Wogensen, Lise ^b   Vinding, Mads S ^a   Rydtoft, Louise M ^b   Mortensen, Martin B ^b   Karring, Henrik ^c   Nielsen, Niels Chr ^a   Wang, Tobias ^b   Thøgersen, Ida B ^a   Enghild, Jan J ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOTOMY; CELL DAMAGE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GEKKO GECKO; IMAGING; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TAIL; TISSUE ADHESION; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; LIZARDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; REGENERATION; SELF MUTILATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TAIL;

GEKKO GECKO; GEKKONIDAE; SAURURACEAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84871303188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051803     Document Type: Article

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