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  title info:
    title: Attachment Devices of Insect Cuticle
  name:
    name part: Gorb, Stanislav.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 305 p. 119 illus. online resource.
  abstract: In 1974 when I published my book, Biological Mechanism of Attachment, not many pages were required to report on the attachment devices of insect cuticles. As in most fields of research, our knowledge on this specific subject has simply exploded. Dr. Stanislav N. Gorb now describes the present day level of our knowledge, to which he has personally contributed so much, and a research team working on biological microtribology has gradually developed, also. With modern methods of measurement it is possible to enter the structure – function relationship much more deeply, even down to a molecular level, which was not possible two and a half decades ago. It is a well known fact that, in biology, the more sophisticated the measuring method, the greater the achievement of biological fundamental research, and its resulting evidence. Our knowledge remains at a certain level until new methods once more permit a forward leap. Biological knowledge develops in the form of a stepped curve rather than linear, as reflected in the studies carried out on the attachment devices of insect cuticles.
  table of contents: Friction and adhesion: fundamentals -- Insect cuticle: structure and properties of the material -- Cuticular protuberances of insects -- Principles of cuticular attachment in Arthropoda -- Frictional systems -- Dragonfly and damselfly head-arresting system -- Intersegmental frictional devices -- Wing-locking devices -- Attachment pads -- Secretions in frictional systems -- Protuberances and their fields -- Sensory equipment -- The evolution of frictional systems -- Ecological implications -- Nature’s design as a basis for biomimetics.
  note: by Stanislav Gorb.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Biochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  subject:
    topic: Animal physiology
  subject:
    topic: Entomology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Entomology
  subject:
    topic: Animal Physiology
  subject:
    topic: Biochemistry, general
  subject:
    topic: Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  classification: QL461-599.82
  classification: 595.7
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      title: Springer eBooks
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