Spider Physiology and Behaviour

Table of Contents

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Cover

Contributors

Preface

Venom Composition and Strategies in Spiders: Is Everything Possible?

1 Introduction

2 Methods and datasets

3 Results: spider venom composition and modes of action

4 Discussion

Spider Nutrition: An Integrative Perspective

1 Introduction

2 Important aspects of spider physiology

3 The food of spiders in nature

4 Nutrition and spider performance

5 Conclusions: Integration and connections

Endosymbiont Infections in Spiders

1 Identification of maternally transmitted endosymbiotic bacteria in spiders

2 Modes of endosymbiont inheritance in spiders and other arachnids

3 Bacterial phenotypes in spiders

4 Effects of endosymbiont infections on spider behaviour

5 Evolutionary relationships between endosymbionts and their spider hosts

6 Are spiders special? Identification of novel bacterial strains in spiders

7 Endosymbiont infections and the evolution of sexually selected traits: spiders as useful model systems

Grade Changes in Brain–Body Allometry: Morphological and Behavioural Correlates of Brain Size in Miniature Spiders, Insects and Other Invertebrates

1 Problems of absolute and relative brain size in small animals

2 Aims of this review

3 Generality of the miniaturization problem

4 Possible solutions to miniaturization problems

5 Predictions derived from possible solutions to the miniaturization problem

6 Data testing the predictions

7 Discussion

Combined Index of Volumes 40 and 41