Liquid crystalline spinning of spider silk

Fritz Vollrath, David P. Knight

Nature

Materials ScienceEngineeringSpider SilkFiber SpinningLiquid Crystalline Elastomer +2

From micro to nano contacts in biological attachment devices

Eduard Arzt, Stanislav N. Gorb, Ralph Spolenak

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Systematics and Evolution of Spiders (Araneae)

Jonathan A. Coddington, Herbert W. Levi

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

BiologySpatial EcologyBiodiversitySpecies Distribution ModelsNumerical Tools +13

Extreme Diversity, Conservation, and Convergence of Spider Silk Fibroin Sequences

John Gatesy, Cheryl Y. Hayashi, Dagmara Motriuk, +2

Science

BiologyPattern FormationAmino Acid MotifsNatural SciencesGenetics +9

Silk Properties Determined by Gland-Specific Expression of a Spider Fibroin Gene Family

Paul A. Guerette, David G. Ginzinger, Bernhard H. F. Weber, +1

Science

Biomimetic MaterialsGeneticsMolecular BiologyFiber SpinningMolecular Genetics +15

EVOLUTION OF ARTHROPOD SILKS

Catherine L. Craig

Annual Review of Entomology

BiologyMorphological EvidenceArthropod TaxonomyDevelopmental BiologyIntegrative Biology +10

Diverse Adaptations of an Ancestral Gill

Wim G.M. Damen, Theodora Saridaki, Michalis Averof

Current Biology

BiologyMolecular Evolutionary EcologyPhylogeneticsMolecular EcologyNatural Sciences +5

THE ORIGIN OF THE SPINNING APPARATUS IN SPIDERS

Jeffrey W. Shultz

Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

BiologySelective PressuresMorphological EvidenceArthropod TaxonomyPhylogenetics +12

Silk Genes Support the Single Origin of Orb Webs

Jessica E. Garb, Teresa DiMauro, Cheryl Y. Hayashi

Science

BiologyPattern FormationOrb WebBiomimetic PolymerBio-inspired Design +10

Structure and cytochemistry of the silk glands of the mygalomorph spider <i>Antrodiaetus unicolor</i> (araneae, antrodiaetidae)

Jacqueline M. Palmer, Frederick A. Coyle, Frederick W. Harrison

Journal of Morphology