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Prey interception drives web invasion and spider size determines successful web takeover in nocturnal orb-web spiders

A striking feature of web-building spiders is the use of silk to make webs, mainly for prey capture. However, building a web is energetically expensive and increases the risk of predation. To reduce such costs and still have access to abundant prey, some web-building spiders have evolved web invasio...

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Autores principales: Gan, Wenjin, Liu, Shengjie, Yang, Xiaodong, Li, Daiqin, Lei, Chaoliang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Company of Biologists 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4610219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26405048
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/bio.012799