The venom optimisation hypothesis: A spider injects large venom quantities only into difficult prey types

Toxicon

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 749-752

  Wigger, Esther ^a   Kuhn Nentwig, Lucia ^a   Nentwig, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Cupiennius salei; Prey capture; Spider; Venom injection; Venom optimisation hypothesis

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUPIENNIUS SALEI; DEFENSE MECHANISM; INSECT; LD 50; NONHUMAN; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECTS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS;

ARANEAE; CALLIPHORIDAE; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CUPIENNIUS SALEI; GRYLLIDAE; HEXAPODA; PHASMATODEA;

EID: 0036232485     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(01)00277-X     Document Type: Article

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