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Spiderwebs and Silk
Author | : Catherine L. Craig |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2003-08-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0195129164 |
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Links the molecular evolution of silk proteins to the evolution and behavioral ecology of web-spinning spiders and other arthropods. This book presents an integrated understanding of an interesting biological system at the molecular and organizational levels.
Spiderwebs and Spider Silk
Author | : Lynnae W Allred |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-07-19 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1737974622 |
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Spiders have adapted to use the spider silk they produce in their bodies in hundreds of interesting ways. The book briefly describes how spiders make silk, then shows how spiders use silk to capture food, build shelter, transport themselves, and wrap prey and eggs. It discusses scientists' quest to make silk in a lab for human use. Spider silk is one of nature's most fascinating fibers.
Spiderwebs and Silk
Author | : Catherine L. Craig |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2003-08-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0195351630 |
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This book links the molecular evolution of silk proteins to the evolution and behavioral ecology of web-spinning spiders and other arthropods. Craig's book draws together studies from biochemistry through molecular genetics, cellular physiology, ecology, and behavior to present an integrated understanding of an interesting biological system at the molecular and organizational levels.
Spider Silk
Author | : Leslie Brunetta,Catherine L. Craig |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2010-06-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780300163155 |
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Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for anyone who has ever wondered, as a spider rappelled out of reach on a line of silk, “How do they do that?” 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 tell the intriguing story of how spiders evolved over 400 million years to add new silks and new uses for silk to their survival “toolkit” and, in the telling, take readers far beyond the orb. The authors describe the trials and triumphs of spiders as they use silk to negotiate an ever-changing environment, and they show how natural selection acts at the genetic level and as individuals struggle for survival.
Researches and Experiments Upon Silk from Spiders and Upon Their Reproduction
Author | : Raimondo Maria de Termeyer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Reproduction |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044107177388 |
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Spider Webs
Author | : William Eberhard |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 679 |
Release | : 2020-12-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226534749 |
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In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical agility and mental abilities of orb weavers. For instance, one spider spins more than three precisely spaced, morphologically complex spiral attachments per second for up to fifteen minutes at a time. Spiders even adjust the mechanical properties of their famously strong silken lines to different parts of their webs and different environments, and make dramatic modifications in orb designs to adapt to available spaces. This extensive adaptive flexibility, involving decisions influenced by up to sixteen different cues, is unexpected in such small, supposedly simple animals. As Eberhard reveals, the extraordinary diversity of webs includes ingenious solutions to gain access to prey in esoteric habitats, from blazing hot and shifting sand dunes (to capture ants) to the surfaces of tropical lakes (to capture water striders). Some webs are nets that are cast onto prey, while others form baskets into which the spider flicks prey. Some aerial webs are tramways used by spiders searching for chemical cues from their prey below, while others feature landing sites for flying insects and spiders where the spider then stalks its prey. In some webs, long trip lines are delicately sustained just above the ground by tiny rigid silk poles. Stemming from the author’s more than five decades observing spider webs, this book will be the definitive reference for years to come.
Spiderwebs and Silk
Author | : Catherine Lee Craig |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Orb weavers |
ISBN | : 0197702023 |
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This work links the molecular evolution of silk proteins to the evolutuion and behavioural ecology of web-spinning spiders and other arthropods.
Spider Silk
Author | : Leslie Brunetta,Catherine Lee Craig |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0300149220 |
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"This wonderful book cures arachnophobia for any lucky reader. Brunetta and Craig combine superb scholarship with engaging writing, providing a compelling introduction to evolution in action through the lens of spiders and their silks."---Simon Levin, peinceton University, author of Fragile Dominion --