Overview
- Comprehensive reviews of all relevant recent research results
- With contributions by renowned spider experts
- Presents basic biological data and potential industrial applications
- With numerous excellent illustrations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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With over 43,000 species, spiders are the largest predacious arthropod group. They have developed key characteristics such as multi-purpose silk types, venoms consisting of hundreds of components, locomotion driven by muscles and hydraulic pressure, a highly evolved key-lock mechanism between the complex genital structures, and many more unique features. After 300 million years of evolutionary refinement, spiders are present in all land habitats and represent one of the most successful groups of terrestrial organisms.
Ecophysiology combines functional and evolutionary aspects of morphology, physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology with ecology. Cutting-edge science in spiders focuses on the circulatory and respiratory system, locomotion and dispersal abilities, the immune system, endosymbionts and pathogens, chemical communication, gland secretions, venom components, silk structure, structure and perception of colours as well as nutritional requirements. Spiders are valuable indicator species in agroecosystems and for conservation biology. Modern transfer and application technologies research spiders and their products with respect to their value for biomimetics, material sciences, and the agrochemical and pharmaceutical industries.
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Table of contents (37 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Respiration and Circulatory System
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Immune System and Pathogens
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Chemical Communication and Reproduction
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Venom
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Bibliographic information
Book title: Spider Ecophysiology
Editors: Wolfgang Nentwig
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33989-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-33988-2Published: 26 February 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44399-2Published: 07 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-33989-9Published: 15 February 2013
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: X, 529
Number of illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour
Topics: Animal Physiology, Invertebrates, Animal Biochemistry, Animal Ecology, Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology