Ultrastructure of spider thread anchorages

Wirth, M; Wolff, JO; Appel, E; Gorb, SN

Wolff, JO (reprint author), Univ Kiel, Zool Inst, Funct Morphol & Biomechan, Bot Garten 9, D-24098 Kiel, Germany.

JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, 2019; 280 (4): 534

Abstract

Spiders attach silken threads to substrates by means of glue-coated nanofibers (piriform silk), spun into disc-like structures. The organization and u......

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