Extraordinarily ordinary: Mucus glands and mucus in the sticky toes of tree frogs
Surprisingly little is known on the nature of the secreted mucus and on the morphology of the glands that produce mucus in the sticky toes of tree frogs. In this blog, Julian Langowski, corresponding author of a new article published in Frontiers in Zoology, tells us about his 3D analysis of tree frog mucus glands and exploration of mucus chemistry.