Silk-like secretion from tarantula feet

Liquid crystalline spinning of spider silk

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Materials Science, Engineering, Spider Silk +4

From micro to nano contacts in biological attachment devices

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Systematics and Evolution of Spiders (Araneae)

Jonathan A. Coddington, Herbert W. Levi · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 1991 · 719 citations

Biology, Spatial Ecology, Biodiversity +15

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

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Biology, Pattern Formation, Amino Acid Motifs +11

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

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Biomimetic Materials, Genetics, Molecular Biology +17