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Connecting materials, performance and evolution: a case study of the glue of moth-catching spiders (Cyrtarachninae).
The Journal of experimental biology - 15 Feb 2022
Diaz Candido, Baker Richard H, Long John H, Hayashi Cheryl Y
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Morphological structures and extended phenotypes are made possible by materials that are encoded by the genome. Nearly all biomaterials are viscoelastic, which means that to understand performance, one must understand the strain rate-dependent properties of these materials in relevant ecological interactions, as the behavior of a material can vary dramatically and rapidly. Spider silks are an example of materials...
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