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Functional Surfaces in Biology - Adhesion Related Phenomena Volume 2

Functional Surfaces in Biology - Adhesion Related Phenomena Volume 2

of: Stanislav N. Gorb

Springer-Verlag, 2009

ISBN: 9781402066955 , 268 Pages

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Functional Surfaces in Biology - Adhesion Related Phenomena Volume 2


 

Abstract

5

Editor

6

Acknowledgments

7

Contents

9

Contributors

14

Introduction Adhesion Enhancement and Reduction in Biological Surfaces

17

1 The Echinoderm Tube Foot and its Role in Temporary Underwater Adhesion

22

2 Mechanisms and Principles Underlying Temporary Adhesion, Surface Exploration and Settlement Site Selection by Barnacle Cyprids: A Short Review

55

3 Alternative Tasks of the Insect Arolium with Special Reference to Hymenoptera

78

4 Organs of Adhesion in Some Mountain-stream Teleosts of India: Structure- Function Relationship

115

5 Surface Characteristics of Locomotor Substrata and Their Relationship to Gekkonid Adhesion: A Case Study of Rhoptropus cf biporosus

133

6 Variable Attachment to Plant Surface Waxes by Predatory Insects

166

7 The Waxy Surface in Nepenthes Pitcher Plants: Variability, Adaptive Significance and Developmental Evolution

191

8 Functional Surfaces in the Pitcher of the Carnivorous Plant Nepenthes alata: A Cryo- Sem Approach

212

Color Plates

246

Index

267