Insects use lubricants to minimize friction and wear in leg joints

A protein-based lubricating substance is discovered in the femoro-tibial joint of the darkling beetle Zophobas morio (Insecta). The substance extrudes to the contacting areas within the joint and appears in a form of filiform flows and short cylindrical fragments. The extruded lubricating substance...

Celý popis

Uloženo v:
Podrobná bibliografie
Vydáno v:Proc Biol Sci
Hlavní autoři: Nadein, Konstantin, Kovalev, Alexander, Thøgersen, Jan, Weidner, Tobias, Gorb, Stanislav
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: The Royal Society 2021
Témata:
Morphology and Biomechanics
On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8261218/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34229486
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1065
Tagy: Přidat tag
Žádné tagy, Buďte první, kdo otaguje tento záznam!

Podobné jednotky