Spider Webs: Behavior, Function, and Evolution.

Eberhard  William G.

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dc.contributor.author	Eberhard William G.
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-26T21:52:08Z
dc.date.available	2024-01-26T21:52:08Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.identifier.citation	Eberhard. Spider Webs: Behavior, Function, and Evolution. - Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020 - 1 online resource (679 p.) - URL: https://libweb.kpfu.ru/ebsco/pdf/2657487.pdf
dc.identifier.isbn	9780226534749
dc.identifier.isbn	022653474X
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/179355
dc.description	3.2.5.3 Data from prey counts generally have serious flaws.
dc.description.tableofcontents	Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 A foreign world: life tied to silk lines -- 1.3 A brief history of spider web studies -- 1.4 Emphasis on behavior -- 1.5 The scope of this book and tactics in presentation -- 1.6 Evolutionary history and phylogeny -- 1.7 Terminology and other procedural matters -- 1.8 Acknowledgments -- Chapter 2. The "hardware" of web-building spiders: morphology, silk, and behavior -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2 Silk glands and silk -- 2.2.1 Origins -- 2.2.2 Mechanical properties and how they are determined -- 2.2.3 Major ampullate glands
dc.description.tableofcontents	2.2.4 Minor ampullate glands -- 2.2.5 Aciniform glands -- 2.2.6 Flagelliform glands -- 2.2.7 Pseudoflagelliform glands -- 2.2.8 Sticky silk -- 2.2.8.1 Cribellum glands -- 2.2.8.2 Aggregate glands -- 2.2.8.3 Venom glands that produce contractile sticky "webs" in Scytodidae -- 2.2.8.4 Ampullate glands in Loxosceles -- 2.2.9 Piriform glands -- 2.2.9.1 Spinneret morphology -- 2.2.9.2 Morphology of attachment discs -- 2.2.9.3 Different attachment disc morphologies result from spinneret behavior and morphology -- 2.2.9.4 The "piriform queen"-Cyrtophora citricola -- 2.2.10 Epiandrous glands
dc.description.tableofcontents	2.2.11 Other products associated with silk -- 2.2.12 Control of rates of silk secretion in glands -- 2.2.13 Forming bridge lines -- 2.3 Spinnerets as high-precision instruments -- 2.3.1 Ancestral morphology and behavior -- 2.3.2 Strategic placements of spigots on the spinnerets of araneomorphs -- 2.3.2.1 General considerations -- 2.3.2.2 Special cases involving web designs -- 2.3.2.3 Additional complications -- 2.3.3 Phylogenetic inertia? -- 2.3.4 Behavior of the spinnerets -- 2.3.5 How are lines terminated? -- 2.4 Leg morphology and behavior: grasping lines precisely and securely
dc.description.tableofcontents	2.4.1 Grasping lines in a web -- tarsal morphology and leg movements -- 2.4.2 Complementary searching and grasping behavior -- 2.4.2.1 The blind man's cane and the art of following -- 2.4.2.2 Asymmetric searching movements that match asymmetric tarsal morphology -- 2.4.2.3 An additional detail: rotating legs to grasp lines -- 2.4.3 Grasping a line prior to attaching the dragline -- 2.5 Cutting lines and recycling silk -- 2.5.1 Cutting lines -- 2.5.2 Recycling silk -- 2.6 How spiders avoid adhering to their own webs: a mystery partly solved -- 2.7 Central nervous system basis for web construction
dc.description.tableofcontents	2.8 Summary -- Chapter 3. Functions of orb web designs -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Correcting common misconceptions about orb webs -- 3.2.1 Orbs are neither sieves nor sound detectors -- 3.2.2 Orb webs are not the pinacle of web evolution -- 3.2.3 Orbs have never been demonstrated to be "optimum" structures -- 3.2.4 The trajectories, diameters, and velocities of prey are diverse and poorly known -- 3.2.5 Most differences in orb designs are probably not specializations for particular prey -- 3.2.5.1 Long lists of prey captured argue against strong specialization -- 3.2.5.2 Strong habitat effects
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Chicago University of Chicago Press
dc.subject.other	Spider webs.
dc.subject.other	Spiders -- Behavior.
dc.subject.other	Electronic books.
dc.subject.other	Electronic books.
dc.title	Spider Webs: Behavior, Function, and Evolution.
dc.type	Book
dc.description.pages	1 online resource (679 p.)
dc.collection	Электронно-библиотечные системы
dc.source.id	EN05CEBSCO05C450308