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Air bells of water spiders are an extended phenotype modified in response to gas composition.

Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological genetics and physiology - 1 Oct 2007

Schütz Dolores, Taborsky Michael, Drapela Thomas

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The water spider Argyroneta aquatica (Clerck) is the only spider that spends its whole life under water. Water spiders keep an air bubble around their body for breathing and build under-water air bells, which they use for shelter and raising offspring, digesting and consuming prey, moulting, depo...

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PMID: 17674350
DOI: 10.1002/jez.410

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