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The moth specialist spider Cyrtarachne akirai uses prey scales to increase adhesion

Contaminants decrease adhesive strength by interfering with substrate contact. Spider webs adhering to moths present an ideal model to investigate how natural adhesives overcome contamination because moths' sacrificial layer of scales rubs off on sticky silk, facilitating escape. However, Cyrta...

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Publié dans:J R Soc Interface
Auteurs principaux: Diaz, Candido, Maksuta, Daniel, Amarpuri, Gaurav, Tanikawa, Akio, Miyashita, Tadashi, Dhinojwala, Ali, Blackledge, Todd A.
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: The Royal Society 2020
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7014792/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31992163
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2019.0792
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