1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458239103321

Autore

Craig Catherine Lee

Titolo

Spiderwebs and silk : tracing evolution from molecules to genes to phenotypes / / Catherine L. Craig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-280-47226-X

9786610472260

1-4237-5773-4

0-19-535163-0

1-60256-364-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

595.4/4

Soggetti

Orb weavers - Evolution

Silk

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Silk Proteins: Breakdown and Evolutionary Pathways; 2 The Comparative Architecture of Silks, Fibrous Proteins, and Their Encoding Genes in Insects and Spiders; 3 The Mechanical Functions of Silks and Their Correlated Structural Properties; 4 Insect Spatial Vision Is a Potential Selective Factor on the Evolution of Silk Achromatic Properties and Web Architecture; 5 Insect Color Vision Is a Potential Selective Factor on the Evolution of Silk Chromatic Properties and Web Design

6 Insect Learning Capacity Is a Potential Selective Factor in the Evolution of Silk Color and the Decorative Silk Patterns Spun by Spiders7 Inter-Gland Competition for Amino Acids and the ATP Costs of Silk Synthesis; 8 A One-Dimensional Developmental System and Life-Long Silk Synthesis May Preclude the Evolution of Higher Eusociality in Spiders; 9 Conclusions and Looking Forward; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Links the molecular evolution of silk proteins to the evolution and behavioral ecology of web-spinning spiders and other arthropods. This



book presents an integrated understanding of an interesting biological system at the molecular and organizational levels.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954843003321

Titolo

Politics and culture in Victorian Britain : essays in memory of Colin Matthew / / edited by Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-19-151444-6

1-280-90483-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GhoshPeter

GoldmanLawrence <1957->

MatthewH. C. G (Henry Colin Gray)

Disciplina

306.20941/09034

Soggetti

Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901

Great Britain Civilization 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A brief word on "politics" and "culture" / Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman -- Colin Matthew (1941-1999) / Boyd Hilton -- Colin Matthew : a memoir / Ross McKibbin -- Colin Matthew : a bibliography / Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman -- Gladstone and Peel / Peter Ghosh -- Gladstone and a liberal theory of international relations / Martin Ceadel -- The enfranchisement of the urban poor in late-Victorian Britain / John Davis -- The defection of the middle class : the Endowed Schools Act, the Liberal Party and the 1874 election / Lawrence Goldman -- Liberal passions : reason and emotion in late- and post-Victorian liberal thought / Michael Freeden -- The Church of England and women's higher education, c. 1840-1914 / Janet Howarth -- Protestant histories : James Anthony Froude, partisanship, and national identity / Jane Garnett -- Roman candles : Catholic converts among authors in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Philip Waller -- Scenes from professional life : medicine, moral conduct, and



interconnectedness in Middlemarch / Margaret Pelling -- Victorian interpretations of Thomas Hobbes / Jose Harris.

Sommario/riassunto

How and why should we study Victorian Britain? The answer to this question used to be quite straightforward. It was the Victorian contribution to modern politics which stood out above all else. Today we are not so sure. This book suggest that politics are still central, but must be more broadly construed, as a pervasive part of Victorian culture as a whole. - ;In the last twenty years one of the classical arenas for British historical writing - the politics of Victorian Britain - has ceased to be an obvious or self-evidently important subject. Facing up to this challenge, the historians who ha