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Unravelling hagfish slime

Hagfish slime is a unique predator defence material containing a network of long fibrous threads each ∼10 cm in length. Hagfish release the threads in a condensed coiled state known as skeins (∼100 µm), which must unravel within a fraction of a second to thwart a predator attack. Here we consider th...

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Published in:J R Soc Interface
Main Authors: Chaudhary, Gaurav, Ewoldt, Randy H., Thiffeault, Jean-Luc
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6364663/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30958163
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2018.0710
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