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Ovarian Transcriptomic Analyses in the Urban Human Health Pest, the Western Black Widow Spider. [PDF]

Genes (Basel), 2020
Miles LS, Ayoub NA, Garb JE, Haney RA, Verrelli BC.   +4 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Venomous spiders of Albania –does an increase of temperature influence the toxicity of spider venom?

Toxicon: X, 2022
Black widow spiders (Latrodectus sp.) are distributed worldwide, and in Albania the L. tredecimguttatus Rossi, 1790 has been the dominant spider. Other medically important spiders in Albania include the brown recluse with symptoms known as loxoscelism ...
Vrenozi, Blerina
doaj   +1 more source

Multi-tissue transcriptomics of the black widow spider reveals expansions, co-options, and functional processes of the silk gland gene toolkit. [PDF]

BMC Genomics, 2014
Background: Spiders (Order Araneae) are essential predators in every terrestrial ecosystem largely because they have evolved potent arsenals of silk and venom.
Clarke TH, Garb JE, Hayashi CY, Haney RA, Lancaster AK, Corbett S, Ayoub NA.   +6 more
europepmc   +5 more sources

Recruitment and diversification of an ecdysozoan family of neuropeptide hormones for black widow spider venom expression. [PDF]

Gene, 2014
McCowan C, Garb JE.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Origin, structure and functional transition of sex pheromone components in a false widow spider

Communications Biology, 2022
New chemical components to female spider pheromones are identified in the false black widow spider, Steatoda grossa.
Andreas Fischer, Regine Gries, Santosh K. Alamsetti, Emmanuel Hung, Andrea C. Roman Torres, Yasasi Fernando, Sanam Meraj, Weiwu Ren, Robert Britton, Gerhard Gries   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does Black Widow Spider Bite the Heart?

Progress in Pediatric Cardiology, 2023
Behzad Alizadeh, Pegah Bahrami, Shirin Sadat Ghiasi, Elham Nikrouh, Ghazaleh Pourali, Anahita Alizadeh, Feisal Rahimpour   +6 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Southern black widow Latrodectus mactans (Fabricius) (Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae)

EDIS, 2013
The Southern black widow spider, Latrodectus mactans (Fabricius), is a venomous spider found throughout the southeastern United States. Widow spiders received their name from the belief that they would kill and consume their mate following copulation ...
Amanda Eiden, Phillip E. Kaufman
doaj   +5 more sources

Snake and spider toxins induce a rapid recovery of function of botulinum neurotoxin paralysed neuromuscular junction [PDF]

, 2015
Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) and some animal neurotoxins (-Bungarotoxin, -Btx, from elapid snakes and -Latrotoxin, -Ltx, from black widow spiders) are pre-synaptic neurotoxins that paralyse motor axon terminals with similar clinical outcomes in patients.
Duregotti, Elisa, Megighian, Aram, Montecucco, Cesare, Pirazzini, Marco, Rigoni, Michela, Scorzeto, M., Zanetti, Giulia   +6 more
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Sum frequency generation spectroscopy of the attachment disc of a spider [PDF]

, 2021
The pyriform silk of the attachment disc of a spider was studied using infrared-visible vibrational sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy. The spider can attach dragline and radial lines to many kinds of substrates in nature (concrete, alloy, metal,
Hien, Khuat Thi Thu, Li, Yanrong, Liang, Lin, Mizutani, Goro, Rutt, Harvey N., Zhao, Yue   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Black widow spider (Latrodectus renivulatus) envenomation in children in Saudi Arabia: a case series

Toxicology Communications, 2023
Black widow spider (Latrodectus renivulatus) envenomation is a toxicological emergency affecting Middle Eastern countries. Young children may experience greater morbidity due to their small size relative to the amount of venom delivered. We describe four
Musa S. Alfaifi, Bader Alyahya, Ibrahim AlHelali, Lujaine Mushabab Al-Murayeh, Ibrahim Al-Benhassan, Hesham M. Gamal, Mohamed Elbarbary, Hadi Al-Ali   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source