Frog tongue surface microstructures: functional and evolutionary patterns

Thomas Kleinteich and Stanislav N. Gorb
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 893–903. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.7.81

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Supporting Information features a ZIP file containing eight slice movies through the micro-CT datasets, one for each of the following species: Bombina orientalis (Supplementary_Movie_01_Bombina.mov), Discoglossus pictus (Supplementary_Movie_02_Discoglossus.mov), Ceratophrys ornata (Supplementary_Movie_03_Ceratophrys.mov), Litoria caerulea (Supplementary_Movie_04_Litoria.mov), Megophrys nasuta (Supplementary_Movie_05_Megophrys.mov), Rana (Lithobates) pipiens (Supplementary_Movie_06_Rana.mov), Bufo bufo (Supplementary_Movie_07_Bufo.mov) and Oophaga histrionica (Supplementary_Movie_08_Oophaga.mov).

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Frog tongue surface microstructures: functional and evolutionary patterns
Thomas Kleinteich and Stanislav N. Gorb
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 893–903. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.7.81

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Kleinteich, T.; Gorb, S. N. Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 893–903. doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.81

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