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...

詳細記述

書誌詳細
第一著者: Brunetta, Leslie, 1960-
その他の著者: Craig, Catherine Lee
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: New Haven : Yale University Press ©2010.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1nqbhw
目次:
  • 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.