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First records of the Tokay Gecko, Gekko gecko (Linnaeus, 1758) (Squamata, Gekkonidae), in Mexico [PDF]

open access: yesCheck List, 2022
We report the first records of the invasive Tokay Gecko, Gekko gecko (Linnaeus, 1758), in Mexico, based on the discovery of five specimens from Reynosa, Tamaulipas.
Ivan Villalobos-Juárez   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

High Performance Marine and Terrestrial Bioadhesives and the Biomedical Applications They Have Inspired

open access: yesMolecules, 2022
This study has reviewed the naturally occurring bioadhesives produced in marine and freshwater aqueous environments and in the mucinous exudates of some terrestrial animals which have remarkable properties providing adhesion under difficult environmental
James Melrose
doaj   +1 more source

Morphologically Adaptive Crash Landing on a Wall: Soft‐Bodied Models of Gliding Geckos with Varying Material Stiffnesses

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, 2022
Landing on vertical surfaces in challenging environments is a critical ability for multimodal robots—it allows the robot to hold position above the ground without expending energy to hover.
Mrudul Chellapurath   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Into the Light: Diurnality has Evolved Multiple Times in Geckos [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Geckos are the only major lizard group consisting mostly of nocturnal species. Nocturnality is presumed to have evolved early in gecko evolution and geckos possess numerous adaptations to functioning in low light and at low temperatures. However, not all
Bauer, Aaron M.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

The Male Reproductive Cycle of the Bedriaga's Plate-tailed Gecko, Teratoscincus bedriagai in Iran [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2015
The Bedriaga's Plate-tailed Gecko, Teratoscincus bedriagai, Nikolsky, 1900 is distributed in the northern and eastern deserts of Sistan, Iran and the desert regions of southern Afghanistan. In this research, the male reproductive cycle of this lizard has
Nazanin Jahed Haghshenas, Vida Hojati
doaj   +1 more source

Konzeption und prototypische Implementierung eines Verfahrens zur Übernahme von medizinischen Daten in Virtuelle Patienten

open access: yesGMS Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie, 2018
Virtual patients play an important role in medical teaching. The authors of virtual patients spend a lot of time to create virtual patients. Therefore, there is a great interest to generate virtual patients automatically using the content of medical ...
Schmidt, Christian   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Young relicts and old relicts: a novel palaeoendemic vertebrate from the Australian Central Uplands [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2016
Climatic change, and in particular aridification, has played a dominant role in shaping Southern Hemisphere biotas since the mid-Neogene. In Australia, ancient and geologically stable ranges within the vast arid zone have functioned as refugia for ...
Paul M. Oliver, Peter J. McDonald
doaj   +1 more source

COLONIZATION OF NORTHERN LOUISIANA BY THE MEDITERRANEAN GECKO, HEMIDACTYLUS TURCICUS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Mediterranean Gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus, is known to have colonized nearly every state in the southern United States. In Louisiana, the Mediterranean Gecko has been documented in many of the southern parishes, but records for the northern portion ...
Battaglia, Charles D.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Gecko adhesion based sea star crawler robot

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023
Over the years, efforts in bioinspired soft robotics have led to mobile systems that emulate features of natural animal locomotion. This includes combining mechanisms from multiple organisms to further improve movement.
Sampada Acharya   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Citizen Science Assisted Monitoring Provides New Data Concerning the Distribution of the Bulgarian Bent-toed Gecko, Mediodactylus danilewskii (Gekkonidae, Squamata), in North-East Bulgaria

open access: yesZoodiversity, 2021
The Bulgarian Bent-toed Gecko (Mediodactylus danilewskii Strauch, 1887) is one of the two species of geckos inhabiting the territory of Bulgaria. In the recent years, new information on its distribution was published and big amount of data were collected.
T. Koynova   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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