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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New Haven :
Yale University Press
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1nqbhw |
Table of Contents:
- 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.