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Electric Fields Elicit Ballooning in Spiders
When one thinks of airborne organisms, spiders do not usually come to mind. However, these wingless arthropods have been found 4 km up in the sky [1], dispersing hundreds of kilometers [2]. To disperse, spiders “balloon,” whereby they climb to the top of a prominence, let out silk, and float away. T...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Cell Press
2018
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6065530/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29983315 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.057 |