Aggregate silk gland secretions of araneoid spiders

Spider Ecophysiology

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 283-302

  Townley, Mark A ^a   Tillinghast, Edward K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33989-9_21     Document Type: Chapter

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