Under- and over-water halves of Gyrinidae beetle eyes harbor different corneal nanocoatings providing adaptation to the water and air environments.

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Published in Sci Rep on August 08, 2014

Authors

Artem Blagodatski1, Michail Kryuchkov1, Anton Sergeev2, Andrey A Klimov3, Maxim R Shcherbakov4, Gennadiy A Enin1, Vladimir L Katanaev5

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russian Federation.
2: Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russian Federation.
3: Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russian Federation.
4: Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
5: 1] Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russian Federation [2] Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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