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Oscillation of the velvet worm slime jet by passive hydrodynamic instability

The rapid squirt of a proteinaceous slime jet endows velvet worms (Onychophora) with a unique mechanism for defence from predators and for capturing prey by entangling them in a disordered web that immobilizes their target. However, to date, neither qualitative nor quantitative descriptions have bee...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nat Commun
Hauptverfasser: Concha, Andrés, Mellado, Paula, Morera-Brenes, Bernal, Sampaio Costa, Cristiano, Mahadevan, L, Monge-Nájera, Julián
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Nature Pub. Group 2015
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4382676/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25780995
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7292
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