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Plastron Regeneration on Submerged Superhydrophobic Surfaces Using in Situ Gas Generation by Chemical Reaction

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018
Superhydrophobic surfaces submerged under water appear shiny due to total internal reflection of light from a thin layer of air (plastron) trapped in their surface texture.
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Studies on Plastron Respiration

Journal of Experimental Biology, 1947
ABSTRACT As is well known from the work of Ege and others many aquatic insects (e.g. Dytiscidae, Hydrophilidae, Corixidae, Notonectidae) which carry air stores in the form of bubbles or films attached to their bodies or in special subelytral spaces can, if the water is well aerated, obtain a proportion of their total oxygen requirement ...
W. H. Thorpe, D. J. Crisp
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Underwater breathing: the mechanics of plastron respiration

Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2008
The rough, hairy surfaces of many insects and spiders serve to render them water-repellent; consequently, when submerged, many are able to survive by virtue of a thin air layer trapped along their exteriors. The diffusion of dissolved oxygen from the ambient water may allow this layer to function as a respiratory bubble or ‘plastron’, and so enable ...
Flynn, M. R., Bush, John W. M.
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A diffusion equation for tapered plastrons

Journal of Insect Physiology, 1976
Abstract An equation for the diffusion of oxygen along a plastron of uniform thickness was provided by Thorpe and Crisp in their classical work on plastrons. Since then it has been discovered that some plastrons are tapered, e.g. those of many spiracular gills, in which the thickness of the plastron becomes less as the distance from the spiracle ...
H.E. Hinton, G.M. Jarman
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PLASTRON RESPIRATION IN AQUATIC INSECTS

Biological Reviews, 1950
SUMMARY The closed tracheal system of the aquatic larvae of insects, together with the typical tracheal gill, can only function if the tracheal tubes themselves have sufficient resistance to compression. The work of Ege showed conclusively that the ‘air stores’ of many aquatic insects can, if they are in communication with the spiracles, function as ...
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Structure of the plastron in Lipsothrix , and the polyphyletic origin of plastron respiration in Tipulidae

Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series A, General Entomology, 1967
SYNOPSIS The fine structure of the plastron of the spiracular gills of the pupa of a tipulid fly, Lipsothrix remota , is described. Evidence is provided for the view that plastron‐bearing spiracular gills have been independently evolved on at least four occasions in the ...
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The Mechanical Functions of the Testudinate Plastron

American Midland Naturalist, 1964
The greatly reduced plastron bones of highly specialized turtles are similar to those of hatchling turtles because mechanical requirements determine the final shape and position of the reduced bones. The turtle's plastron has three functions, only one of which is ventral armor.
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Plastron respiration in bugs and beetles

Journal of Insect Physiology, 1976
Abstract In the naucorid bug, Alphelocheirus, the plastron hairs are twice as thick and nearly twice as dense (ca. 4 × 106/mm2) as they had been thought to be by previous workers. From experiments and calculations it seems clear that when the plastron is subjected to excess pressures it is wetted long before there is any question of the collapse of ...
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Plastron respiration in the eggs of blowflies

Journal of Insect Physiology, 1960
Abstract In the egg-shells of the blowflies Calliphora and Lucilia a continuous film of air is held between vertical columns in the inner part of the chorion. This film of air is continuous with that held in the median area between the hatching lines. The chorion of the median area between the hatching lines consists of three distinct layers.
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Plastron Respiration in Marine Insects

Nature, 1966
THE immature stages of more than 150 species of insects appear to be restricted to the intertidal zone. Most of these are flies, and most of the flies belong to the families Chironomidae, Tipulidae, Dolichopodidae and Canaceidae. A fair number of beetles, a few bugs, and at least one caddis-fly also breed between tide marks. The immature stages of most
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