Dakota Piorkowski

A nocturnal cursorial predator attracts flying prey with a visual lure

Shichang Zhang, Honglin Chen, Kuan‐Yu Chen et al. · Animal Behaviour · 2015 · 23 citations

Foraging, Predator-prey Interaction, Evolutionary Biology +5

Ontogenetic shift toward stronger, tougher silk of a web‐building, cave‐dwelling spider

Dakota Piorkowski, Sean J. Blamires, N. E. Doran et al. · Journal of Zoology · 2017 · 23 citations · Full text

Biology, Life Stages, Pattern Formation +10

Functional trade-offs in cribellate silk mediated by spinning behavior

Peter Michalik, Dakota Piorkowski, Todd A. Blackledge et al. · Scientific Reports · 2019 · 23 citations · Full text

Nitrogen unavailability helps to protect spider silk from bacterial growth

Shichang Zhang, Dakota Piorkowski, Wan-Rou Lin et al. · Journal of Experimental Biology · 2019 · 18 citations · Full text

Biology, Spider Species, Medicine +10

Punctuated evolution of viscid silk in spider orb webs supported by mechanical behavior of wet cribellate silk

Dakota Piorkowski, Todd A. Blackledge · Die Naturwissenschaften · 2017 · 15 citations

Textile Engineering, Pattern Formation, Wet Cribellate Silk +11