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SUBMITTER: Flammang BE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5517627 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Flammang Brooke E BE Kenaley Christopher P CP
Scientific reports 20170719 1
Remora fishes adhere to, and maintain long-term, reversible attachment with, surfaces of varying roughness and compliance under wetted high-shear conditions using an adhesive disc that evolved from the dorsal fin spines typical of other fishes. Evolution of this complex hierarchical structure required extensive reorganization of the skull and fin spines, but the functional role of the soft tissues of the disc are poorly understood. Here I show that remora cranial veins are highly-modified in com ...[more]