Spider Ecophysiology
With over 43,000 species, spiders are the largest predacious arthropod group. They have developed key characteristics such as multi-purpose silk types, venoms consisting of hundreds of components, locomotion driven by muscles and hydraulic pressure, a highly evolved key-lock mechanism between the co...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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Edición: | 1st ed. 2013. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Respiration and Circulatory System
- Locomotion and Dispersal
- Immune system and pathogens
- Chemical Communication and Reproduction
- Venom
- Silk
- Colouration
- Nutrition
- Ecotoxicology
- Applications.