Laboratory methods for maintaining and studying web-building spiders

Journal of Arachnology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 205-213

  Zschokke, Samuel ^a   Herberstein, Marie E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data collection; Laboratory manual; Methodology; Spider silk; Spider web

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE;

EID: 30344436955     PISSN: 01618202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1636/CT04-72.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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