Under-and over-water halves of Gyrinidae beetle eyes harbor different corneal nanocoatings providing adaptation to the water and air environments

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Blagodatski, Artem ^a   Kryuchkov, Michail ^a   Sergeev, Anton ^b   Klimov, Andrey A ^c   Shcherbakov, Maxim R ^d   Enin, Gennadiy A ^a   Katanaev, Vladimir L ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADAPTATION; AIR; ANIMAL; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BEETLE; CHEMISTRY; CORNEA; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; WETTABILITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AIR; ANIMALS; BEETLES; CORNEA; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84905851631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06004     Document Type: Article

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