How to visualize the spider mite silk?

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 659-664

  Clotuche, Gwendoline ^a   Le Goff, G ^a   Mailleux, A C ^b   Deneubourg, J L ^b   Detrain, C ^b   Hance, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fluorescent brightener 28; Social organization; Tetranychidae; Tetranychus urticae; Web

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; FLUORESCENCE; GLASS; GLASS SUBSTRATES; SILK;

FLUORESCENT BRIGHTENER 28; FLUORESCENT BRIGHTENERS; GLASS LENS; SIMPLE++; SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS; SPIDER MITE; STRUCTURATION; TETRANYCHIDA; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE; WEB;

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE;

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FLUORESCENT DYE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BEAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; MITE; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILK; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE;

ACARI; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE;

EID: 69249136272     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20712     Document Type: Article

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