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

• Autore: Craig Catherine Lee
• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 595.4/4
• Soggetto topico: Orb weavers - Evolution; Silk
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2003.
• 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: This work links the molecular evolution of silk proteins to the evolutuion and behavioural ecology of web-spinning spiders and other arthropods.
• Titolo autorizzato: Spiderwebs and silk
• ISBN: 9786610472260; 9780190284596; 0190284595; 9780197702024; 0197702023; 9781280472268; 128047226X; 9781423757733; 1423757734; 9780195351637; 0195351630; 9781602563643; 1602563640
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910959447603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.