Preying dangerously: black widow spider venom resistance in sympatric lizards [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Lizards and spiders are natural adversaries, yet little is known of adaptations that lizards might possess for dealing with the venomous defences of spider prey.
Vicki L. Thill +4 more
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Improved Black Widow Spider Optimization Algorithm Integrating Multiple Strategies [PDF]
Entropy, 2022 The black widow spider optimization algorithm (BWOA) had the problems of slow convergence speed and easily to falling into local optimum mode. To address these problems, this paper proposes a multi-strategy black widow spider optimization algorithm ...
Chenxin Wan +5 more
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Reversible Myocarditis and Pericarditis after Black Widow Spider Bite or Kounis Syndrome? [PDF]
Case Reports in Cardiology, 2015 Clinical manifestation of black widow spider bite is variable and occasionally leads to death in rural areas. Cases of myocarditis and pericarditis after black widow spider bite are rare and the associated prognostic significance is unknown.
Mehmet Yaman +4 more
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Reversible Myocarditis after Black Widow Spider Envenomation [PDF]
Case Reports in Medicine, 2012 Black widow spiders can cause variable clinical scenarios from local damage to very serious conditions including death. Acute myocardial damage is rarely observed and its prognostic significance is not known.
Tarek Dendane +6 more
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Black widow spider bites experience from tertiary care center in Saudi Arabia [PDF]
Avicenna Journal of Medicine, 2017 Introduction: Black widow spiders are one of the most poisonous species to humans; there are more than 30 species of widow spiders in the globe but good thing that not all of them are dangerous.
Ali Al Bshabshe +2 more
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Acute Myocarditis After Black Widow Spider Bite: A Case Report [PDF]
Cardiology and Therapy, 2020 The black widow spider (BWS) is a venomous spider whose bite can cause various clinical conditions that range from local damage to serious systemic complications, including death.
A. Piscopo +7 more
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Structural Characterization of Black Widow Spider Dragline Silk Proteins CRP1 and CRP4 [PDF]
Molecules, 2020 Spider dragline silk represents a biomaterial with outstanding mechanical properties, possessing high-tensile strength and toughness. In black widows at least eight different proteins have been identified as constituents of dragline silk. These represent
Mikayla Shanafelt +7 more
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Disparity in the distribution of suitable habitat as a metric for capturing responses to contrasting land‐use types [PDF]
Ecological Applications, Volume 36, Issue 6, September 2026.Abstract Global species observations from community science platforms offer an unprecedented opportunity to analyze large‐scale patterns of biodiversity. This holds great promise for developing data‐driven metrics to measure species' responses to landscape‐level environmental changes, essential for ameliorating the ongoing biodiversity crisis.
Joscha Beninde
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Fine structure of the intercalated disc and cardiac junctions in the black widow spider Latrodectus mactans [PDF]
Applied Microscopy, 2020 Arthropods have an open circulatory system with a simple tubular heart, so it has been estimated that the contractile pumping structure of the cardiac muscle will be less efficient than that of vertebrates.
Yan Sun +3 more
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Neurotoxic manifestations of black widow spider envenomation in paediatric patients
Neurología (English Edition), 2016 Introduction: Envenomation by black widow spiders manifests clinically with signs of neurotoxicity in paediatric patients. Objective: Identify typical neurological signs and symptoms in paediatric patients of different ages, and describe treatment and ...
N. Sotelo-Cruz, N. Gómez-Rivera
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