Environmentally induced post-spin property changes in spider silks: Influences of web type, spidroin composition and ecology

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 580-588

  Blamires, Sean J ^a   Wu, Chun Lin ^b   Blackledge, Todd A ^c   Tso, I Min ^a,d  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^d TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Environmental stress; Major ampullate silk; Mechanical properties; Orb web spiders; Phylogenetic comparisons; Post spin silk properties

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTEIN; SOLAR RADIATION; SPIDER; TROPICAL REGION; VULNERABILITY;

ARANEAE; ARGIOPE; CYCLOSA; CYRTOPHORA; LEUCAUGE; NEPHILA;

EID: 84862337989     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01884.x     Document Type: Article

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