Spiderwebs and silk : tracing evolution from molecules to genes to phenotypes / Catherine L. Craig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craig, Catherine Lee, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orb weavers--Evolution.

Orb weavers.

Silk.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work links the molecular evolution of silk proteins to the evolutuion and behavioural ecology of web-spinning spiders and other arthropods.

Contents:

Contents; 1 Silk Proteins: Breakdown and Evolutionary Pathways; 2 The Comparative Architecture of Silks, Fibrous Proteins, and Their Encoding Genes in Insects and Spiders; 3 The Mechanical Functions of Silks and Their Correlated Structural Properties; 4 Insect Spatial Vision Is a Potential Selective Factor on the Evolution of Silk Achromatic Properties and Web Architecture; 5 Insect Color Vision Is a Potential Selective Factor on the Evolution of Silk Chromatic Properties and Web Design

6 Insect Learning Capacity Is a Potential Selective Factor in the Evolution of Silk Color and the Decorative Silk Patterns Spun by Spiders7 Inter-Gland Competition for Amino Acids and the ATP Costs of Silk Synthesis; 8 A One-Dimensional Developmental System and Life-Long Silk Synthesis May Preclude the Evolution of Higher Eusociality in Spiders; 9 Conclusions and Looking Forward; References; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

9786610472260

9780190284596

0190284595

9780197702024

0197702023

9781280472268

128047226X

9781423757733

1423757734

9780195351637

0195351630

9781602563643

1602563640

OCLC:

191038362