A novel marine silk.

The discovery of a novel silk production system in a marine amphipod provides insights into the wider potential of natural silks. The tube-building corophioid amphipod Crassicorophium bonellii produces from its legs fibrous, adhesive underwater threads that combine barnacle cement biology with aspec...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Kronenberger, K, Dicko, C, Vollrath, F
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: 2012