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How, then, is strain measured in the spider skeleton? Why can we claim that this strain measurement provides the spider with a highly detailed picture of mechanical events in the cuticle, and why is that picture so hard for us to understand?
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Barth, F.G. (2002). The Measurement of Strain in the Exoskeleton. In: A Spider’s World. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04899-3_7
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