• DOI:10.1002/jmor.20420
Corpus ID: 20296012

The evolution of digit form in Gonatodes (Gekkota: Sphaerodactylidae) and its bearing on the transition from frictional to adhesive contact in gekkotans

@article{Russell2015TheEO,
  title={The evolution of digit form in Gonatodes (Gekkota: Sphaerodactylidae) and its bearing on the transition from frictional to adhesive contact in gekkotans},
  author={A. Russell and J. Baskerville and T. Gamble and T. Higham},
  journal={Journal of Morphology},
  year={2015},
  volume={276}
}

• A. Russell, J. Baskerville, +1 author T. Higham
• Published 2015
• Biology, Medicine
• Journal of Morphology

Although the phenomenon of adhesion in geckos has been intensively studied for over 200 years, our understanding of how the morphological apparatus associated with this arose is less clear. Indeed, whether or not all of the intricate morphological hierarchy that is implicated in the attachment and removal of the adhesive setae originated at the same time is unknown. To explore whether setae may have arisen prior to the other parts of this structural hierarchy, we undertook morphological… Expand

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