ライフサイエンスコーパス: gecko

1 ccurred in arrays of setae isolated from the gecko.

2 tic emissions (SOAEs) in a lizard, the Tokay gecko.

3 n is altered in this secondarily terrestrial gecko.

4 rates for simulating the walking of a living gecko.

5 s in sexual behavior in intact and castrated geckos.

6 evolved several times in lizards, including geckos.

7 crometre keratin hairs covering the soles of geckos.

8 increase of relative pad area from mites to geckos.

9 ch in turn improved microhabitat quality for geckos.

10 y biomass created refuges and nest sites for geckos.

11 mimicking the fibrillar adhesive surfaces of geckos.

12 To evaluate the biological benefit of Gecko 3 and to exemplify our method, we search for gene

13 We present Gecko 3, an open-source software for finding gene cluste

14 Understanding gecko adhesion and self-cleaning mechanisms is essential

15 Gecko adhesion coevolves with modified muscles, tendons,

16 mance over many cycles has been elusive, and gecko adhesion is greatly diminished upon full immersion

17 On the nanoscale, however, gecko adhesion is shown to depend on substrate modulus.

18 Understanding the limits of gecko adhesion is vital for clarifying adhesive mechanis

19 nano-, micro-, and whole-animal mechanics of gecko adhesion on clean, dry substrates, we know relativ

20 While gecko adhesion on hard surfaces has been extensively stu

21 The gecko adhesion system fascinates biologists and material

22 at low surface-layer modulus may inhibit the gecko adhesion system, independent of other influencing

23 atively little about the effects of water on gecko adhesion.

24 ave attempted to capture these properties of gecko adhesive in synthetic mimics with nanoscale surfac

25 For example, the gecko adhesive system is a remarkable innovation that pe

26 hear adhesion of a mushroom-tipped synthetic gecko adhesive under conditions that produced perplexing

27 ely to control such behaviors in the leopard gecko and also are candidate neural substrates for media

28 lyses revealed that the lambda(max)'s of the gecko and chameleon pigments diverged from each other no

29 The RH2 pigments of the gecko and chameleon reconstituted with 11-cis-retinal ha

30 combines the salient design elements of both gecko and mussel adhesives, should be useful for reversi

31 lecular dating of endemic Galapagos iguanas, geckos and lizards.

32 evolution of dry adhesive microstructures in gecko, anoles, skinks, and insects.

33 et friction and adhesion forces on the whole gecko are obtained by rolling down and gripping the toes

34 Geckos are exceptional in their ability to climb rapidly

35 Geckos are nature's elite climbers.

36 Geckos are not known to groom their feet yet retain thei

37 Although geckos are thought to propel themselves with specialized

38 and calbindin-D28k (CB) to characterize the gecko auditory system.

39 When pitch-back cannot be prevented, geckos avoid falling by placing their tail in a posture

40 o, fat-tail gecko, blue-tongued skink, Tokay gecko, bearded dragon, and mountain chameleon.

41 nce on various surfaces can give clues as to gecko behaviour, as well as towards designing synthetic

42 e inner ear have been examined in a reptile (gecko), birds (chicken and owl), and mammals (mouse, gui

43 cluded Gila monster, leopard gecko, fat-tail gecko, blue-tongued skink, Tokay gecko, bearded dragon,

44 question, we identified areas of the leopard gecko brain that express androgen receptor (AR) and estr

45 showed that these antibodies are specific to gecko brain.

46 A tokay gecko can cling to virtually any surface and support its

47 ms, both the adhesion and friction forces of geckos can be changed over three orders of magnitude, al

48 Geckos can run rapidly on walls and ceilings, requiring

49 olytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), we found that geckos clung significantly better to wet PTFE (8.0 +/- 1

50 (minus elephants) had negligible effects on gecko density after 4 months, but increased gecko densit

51 In the presence of elephants, fire increased gecko density nearly threefold within 4 months of the ex

52 gecko density after 4 months, but increased gecko density twofold after 16 months, likely because th

53 alone (minus fire) had negligible effects on gecko density.

54 tail movements control yaw and pitch as the gecko descends.

55 Group II comprises gecko elements that end with CCAA or CAAT repeats.

56 Geckos encounter a variety of surfaces in their natural

57 ral habitats; tropical geckos, such as Gekko gecko, encounter hard, rough tree trunks as well as soft

58 As for many lizards, the leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius) can self-detach its tail

59 The authors exposed gecko (Eublepharis macularius) embryos to patterned visu

60 Leopard geckos (Eublepharis macularius) possess a large tail tha

61 In male leopard geckos (Eublepharis macularius), the incubation temperat

62 opment determines gonadal sex in the leopard gecko, Eublepharis macularius.

63 a 13-generation pedigree of captive leopard geckos, Eublepharis macularius, a TSD reptile.

64 Should a gecko fall with its back to the ground, a swing of its t

65 Host species included Gila monster, leopard gecko, fat-tail gecko, blue-tongued skink, Tokay gecko,

66 tures account for the adhesion properties of gecko feet and the brilliant color variation of butterfl

67 A novel bandage inspired by gecko feet might one day be used during emergencies and

68 g the surface to mimic the nanotopography of gecko feet, which allows attachment to vertical surfaces

69 roximately 10 N x cm(-2): sufficient to keep geckos firmly on their feet, even when upside down on a

70 Contact between the gecko foot and an opposing surface generates adhesive fo

71 6 N/cm(2)) nearly four times higher than the gecko foot and sticks to a variety of surfaces, includin

72 The rapid switching between gecko foot attachment and detachment is analyzed theoret

73 ing rapid detachment and reattachment of the gecko foot during locomotion.

74 square centimeter, almost 10 times that of a gecko foot, and a much stronger shear adhesion force tha

75 ne-inspired structural materials, petals and gecko foot-inspired adhesive films, lotus and mosquito e

76 adhesive properties better than the natural gecko foot.

77 ut with curly entangled top, we have created gecko-foot-mimetic dry adhesives that show macroscopic a

78 es area scaling similar to that of a natural gecko footpad.

79 We gonadectomized adult female and male geckos from an incubation temperature that produces a fe

80 espectively, in functionally intact isolated Gecko gecko lizard rod outer segments under whole-cell v

81 structed the RH2 pigments of nocturnal Tokay gecko (Gekko gekko) and diurnal American chameleon (Anol

82 cone-type visual pigment, P521, of the Tokay gecko (Gekko gekko) retina.

83 sapiens);and the MWS pigments of cave fish, gecko (Gekko gekko), mouse (Mus musculus), squirrel (Sci

84 t (UV)-sensitive visual pigment of the Tokay gecko (Gekko gekko).

85 in morphology and diet of the termite-eating gecko Gymnodactylus amarali between five such newly crea

86 cies (Acacia drepanolobium); this influenced gecko habitat selection but did not explain the synergis

87 The amazing climbing ability of geckos has attracted the interest of philosophers and sc

88 sion in the millions of setae on the toes of geckos has been the focus of scientific study for over a

89 The adhesive system of geckos has inspired hundreds of synthetic adhesives.

90 Geckos have evolved one of the most versatile and effect

91 Geckos have the extraordinary ability to prevent their s

92 By raising geckoes in isolation and then housing some animals toget

93 At 1 week of age, geckos in all conditions failed to exhibit a preference

94 Translation of existing gecko-inspired adhesives for medical applications is com

95 Hand-sized gecko-inspired adhesives with reversible force capacitie

96 theory describes both natural and synthetic gecko-inspired adhesives, over 14 orders of magnitude in

97 A soft gripper is developed based on the gecko-inspired attachment/detachment mechanism.

98 g animal behaviours and rationally designing gecko-inspired devices.

99 Composed of a gecko-inspired elastomeric microfibrillar adhesive membr

100 This gecko-inspired medical adhesive may have potential appli

101 By simply tuning the pull-off velocity, our gecko-inspired micromanipulators, made of synthetic micr

102 As a first demonstration, we have created a gecko-inspired tissue adhesive from a biocompatible and

103 served substitutions and a deletion separate gecko into two groups.

104 The leopard gecko is a lizard lacking sex chromosomes, depending ins

105 The 3' end of gecko is similar in sequence and identical in secondary

106 First, we used the GeCKO library to identify genes essential for cell viabi

107 very of a genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout (GeCKO) library targeting 18,080 genes with 64,751 unique

108 The leopard gecko, like many oviparous reptiles, lacks sex chromosom

109 ierarchical structure found on the foot of a gecko lizard.

110 ipulated physical features of the habitat of gecko lizards and measured the effect on exploitation co

111 The ability of gecko lizards to adhere to a vertical solid surface come

112 How geckos manage to keep their feet clean while walking abo

113 Our findings provide insight into how geckos may function in wet environments and also have si

114 eate a new type of adhesive by mimicking the gecko mechanism.

115 lications for the development of a synthetic gecko mimic that retains adhesion in water.

116 r the swift attachment and detachment during gecko motion.

117 closing this gap, we tested the adhesion of geckos on submerged substrates that vary in their wettab

118 binding constant for this color shift in the gecko P521 visual pigment is 0.4 mM at pH 6.0.

119 ts were prepared by regeneration of bleached gecko photoreceptor membranes with 9-cis-retinal, 9-cis-

120 cement are significantly higher in the three gecko pigments than in the corresponding chameleon pigme

121 ed the kinetic data for all three artificial gecko pigments to be best fit by two-exponential process

122 blue-shift in the absorption spectra of the gecko pigments.

123 When tested on a wet hydrophilic surface, geckos produced a significantly lower shear adhesive for

124 The adhesive strategy of the gecko relies on foot pads composed of specialized kerati

125 We propose that spinal cord regeneration in geckos represents a truncation of the restorative trajec

126 has 57 and 59% sequence similarities to the gecko RH2 and MWS pigment genes, respectively, but it sh

127 We explored how the Namib Day Gecko, Rhoptropus afer, sprints on ecologically relevant

128 Here, we report that the secret to the gecko's arboreal acrobatics includes an active tail.

129 Microscopy has shown that a gecko's foot has nearly five hundred thousand keratinous

130 dhesives and robotic systems inspired by the gecko's locomotion mechanism.

131 The gecko's peculiar behaviour of toe uncurling and peeling

132 We show that a gecko's tail functions as an emergency fifth leg to prev

133 of the tandem repeat during the evolution of gecko sequences, although we do not rule out postinserti

134 Adhesion of a single isolated gecko seta was equally effective on the hydrophobic and

135 ly close to predicting the tip size of Tokay gecko seta.

136 In the present study, we demonstrate that gecko setae are a self-cleaning adhesive.

137 s that the remarkable adhesive properties of gecko setae are merely a result of the size and shape of

138 ct experimental evidence for dry adhesion of gecko setae by van der Waals forces, and reject the use

139 Until recently gecko setae were assumed to be composed entirely of kera

140 ning mechanism possessed by the nano-pads of gecko spatulae.

141 For many gecko species, however, rainfall frequently wets the nat

142 t with the primary lineages of the sympatric gecko species.

143 surfaces in their natural habitats; tropical geckos, such as Gekko gecko, encounter hard, rough tree

144 Recent studies on geckos suggest that active tail stabilization occurs dur

145 the synthetic samples matched that of living geckos, suggesting that uncontrolled parameters in the n

146 The present study can help us understand the gecko system both biologically and for design of synthet

147 We have developed a synthetic gecko tape by transferring micropatterned carbon nanotub

148 The gecko tape can support a shear stress (36 N/cm(2)) nearl

149 Here we report on a prototype of such 'gecko tape' made by microfabrication of dense arrays of

150 Group I includes all gecko that end with poly(dA) and a copy that ends with A

151 e shown support for this theory in nocturnal geckos, the origins of all-cone retinas, such as those f

152 sive forces that are sufficient to allow the gecko to cling onto vertical and even inverted surfaces.

153 Tails are used by geckos to control pitch [4, 5] and by Anolis lizards to

154 a robust self-cleaning capability, allowing geckos to efficiently dislodge dirt during their locomot

155 Muscular motion and dynamic self-cleaning of gecko toe pads are mimicked via this mechanism.

156 Self-peeling of gecko toes is mimicked by integration of film-terminated

157 ntrolled by the (macroscopic) actions of the gecko toes.

158 and adhesive structures known as 'setae' on gecko toes.

159 Geckos use vocalizations for intraspecific communication

160 n, but analysis of footprints left behind by geckos walking on surfaces revealed that setae include v

161 A novel family of tRNA-related SINEs named gecko was discovered in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes

162 ard with highly developed hearing, the tokay gecko, we demonstrate in the present study that the same

163 Approximately 7200 copies of gecko were distributed in the A. aegypti genome with a s

164 The toes of live Tokay geckos were highly hydrophobic, and adhered equally well

165 s of zebra-tailed lizards and western banded geckos, which are abundant and short-lived, to chuckwall

166 lification in the Pachydactylus radiation of geckos, which exhibits multiple unambiguous losses or bo

167 te a functional role for tail undulations in geckos, which likely applies to other terrestrial verteb

168 Geckos with dirty feet recovered their ability to cling