The material cost and stickiness of capture threads and the evolution of orb-weaving spiders

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 443-458

  Opell, Brent D ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Araneidae; Cribellar thread; Key innovation; Orb web; Prey capture; Tetragnathidae; Uloboridae; Viscous thread

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE THREAD; EVOLUATION; MATERNAL COST; ORB-WAEVING SPIDER; STICKINESS;

ARANEAE; ARANEIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PLOCEINAE; TETRAGNATHIDAE; ULOBORIDAE;

EID: 0031441955     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1997.0160     Document Type: Article

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