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Large orb-webs adapted to maximise total biomass not rare, large prey

Spider orb-webs are the ultimate anti-ballistic devices, capable of dissipating the relatively massive kinetic energy of flying prey. Increased web size and prey stopping capacity have co-evolved in a number orb-web taxa, but the selective forces driving web size and performance increases are under...

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Autores principales: Harmer, Aaron M. T., Clausen, Philip D., Wroe, Stephen, Madin, Joshua S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4570981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26374379
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep14121

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