Spider Silk - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spider Silk write by Leslie Brunetta. This book was released on 2010-06-08. Spider Silk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for anyone who has ever wondered, as a spider rappelled out of reach on a line of silk, “How do they do that?” The orb web, that iconic wheel-shaped web most of us associate with spiders, contains at least four different silk proteins, each performing a different function and all meshing together to create a fly-catching machine that has amazed and inspired humans through the ages. Brunetta and Craig tell the intriguing story of how spiders evolved over 400 million years to add new silks and new uses for silk to their survival “toolkit” and, in the telling, take readers far beyond the orb. The authors describe the trials and triumphs of spiders as they use silk to negotiate an ever-changing environment, and they show how natural selection acts at the genetic level and as individuals struggle for survival.
Stronger Than Steel
Stronger Than Steel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stronger Than Steel write by Bridget Heos. This book was released on 2013. Stronger Than Steel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An introduction to the field of genetics through the story of Randy Lewis and his work with golden orb weaver spiders and his subsequent creation of artificial spider silk that can be used to save and improve lives. Full color.
Golden Spider Silk
Golden Spider Silk - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Golden Spider Silk write by Simon Peers. This book was released on 2021. Golden Spider Silk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Spider Webs
Spider Webs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spider Webs write by William Eberhard. This book was released on 2020-12-22. Spider Webs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical agility and mental abilities of orb weavers. For instance, one spider spins more than three precisely spaced, morphologically complex spiral attachments per second for up to fifteen minutes at a time. Spiders even adjust the mechanical properties of their famously strong silken lines to different parts of their webs and different environments, and make dramatic modifications in orb designs to adapt to available spaces. This extensive adaptive flexibility, involving decisions influenced by up to sixteen different cues, is unexpected in such small, supposedly simple animals. As Eberhard reveals, the extraordinary diversity of webs includes ingenious solutions to gain access to prey in esoteric habitats, from blazing hot and shifting sand dunes (to capture ants) to the surfaces of tropical lakes (to capture water striders). Some webs are nets that are cast onto prey, while others form baskets into which the spider flicks prey. Some aerial webs are tramways used by spiders searching for chemical cues from their prey below, while others feature landing sites for flying insects and spiders where the spider then stalks its prey. In some webs, long trip lines are delicately sustained just above the ground by tiny rigid silk poles. Stemming from the author’s more than five decades observing spider webs, this book will be the definitive reference for years to come.
Researches and Experiments Upon Silk from Spiders, and Upon Their Reproduction
Researches and Experiments Upon Silk from Spiders, and Upon Their Reproduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Researches and Experiments Upon Silk from Spiders, and Upon Their Reproduction write by Raimondo Maria de Termeyer. This book was released on 1866. Researches and Experiments Upon Silk from Spiders, and Upon Their Reproduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
