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Spider silk felting—functional morphology of the ovipositor tip of Clistopyga sp. (Ichneumonidae) reveals a novel use of the hymenopteran ovipositor
Apical serrations of the hymenopteran ovipositor have been widely postulated to originally constitute adaptations for cutting through hard substrates. Simplifications of the ovipositor tip have occurred in several ichneumonid wasp genera associated with spiders. Despite such reduction in Clistopyga...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5014030/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27512134 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0350 |