Spider silk : evolution and 400 million years of spinning, waiting, snagging, and mating /

"The orb web, that iconic wheel-shaped web most of us associate with spiders, contains at least four different silk proteins, each performing a different function and all meshing together to create a fly-catching machine that has amazed and inspired humans through the ages. Brunetta and Craig t...

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Hlavní autor: Brunetta, Leslie, 1960-
Další autoři: Craig, Catherine Lee
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New Haven : Yale University Press ©2010.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1nqbhw
Obsah:
  • A timeline of the spider fossil record
  • Fossils
  • Living fossils
  • Chance and change
  • Outward and upward
  • Triumph over thin air
  • Small changes, big benefits
  • Spinning, running, jumping, swimming
  • Going vertical
  • Links
  • Now you see it, now you don't
  • Beyond "perfect"
  • Endless forms.