Electrical properties of hornet silk: Temperature dependence

Physiological Chemistry and Physics and Medical NMR

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 71-84

  Plotkin, Marian ^a   Ermakov, Natalya Y ^a   Bergman, David J ^a   Ishay, Jacob S ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUTICLE PROTEINS, INSECTS; INSECT PROTEIN; WASP VENOM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INSECT; METABOLISM; METAMORPHOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SILK; TEMPERATURE; TIME; WASP;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INSECT PROTEINS; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PUPA; SILK; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WASP VENOMS; WASPS;

HYMENOPTERA; VESPA ORIENTALIS; VESPINAE;

EID: 33645657396     PISSN: 07486642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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