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On Heels and Toes: How Ants Climb with Adhesive Pads and Tarsal Friction Hair Arrays

Ants are able to climb effortlessly on vertical and inverted smooth surfaces. When climbing, their feet touch the substrate not only with their pretarsal adhesive pads but also with dense arrays of fine hairs on the ventral side of the 3(rd) and 4(th) tarsal segments. To understand what role these d...

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Udgivet i:PLoS One
Main Authors: Endlein, Thomas, Federle, Walter
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: Public Library of Science 2015
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4641605/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26559941
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141269
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