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Xanthurenic Acid Is the Main Pigment of Trichonephila clavata Gold Dragline Silk
Spider silk is a natural fiber with remarkable strength, toughness, and elasticity that is attracting attention as a biomaterial of the future. Golden orb-weaving spiders (Trichonephila clavata) construct large, strong webs using golden threads.
Masayuki Fujiwara +8 more
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Molecular Spiders with Memory [PDF]
Synthetic bio-molecular spiders with "legs" made of single-stranded segments of DNA can move on a surface which is also covered by single-stranded segments of DNA complementary to the leg DNA.
G. H. Weiss +8 more
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Spiders are a key predator of insects across ecosystems and possess great potential as pest control agents. Unfortunately, it is difficult to artificially cultivate multiple generations of most spider species.
Wang Zhang +5 more
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Resistance status of the carmine spider mite, Tetranychus cinnabarinus and the twospotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae to selected acaricides on strawberries. [PDF]
The carmine spider mite, Tetranychus cinnabarinus (Boisduval) and the twospotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch, are serious pests of strawberries and many other horticultural crops.
Bi, Jian-Long +3 more
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Pimoa delphinica Mammola, Hormiga & Isaia, 2016 is a troglophile araneoid spider endemic of the high Varaita valley (Western Alps, Province of Cuneo, NW Italy).
Stefano Mammola +2 more
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A \u3ci\u3ePerithous\u3c/i\u3e (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) Introduced from Europe [PDF]
A female specimen of Perithous (Hybomischos) septemcinctorius (Thunberg) was collected from a spider web in a garage in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on May 4, 1972.
Torgersen, Torolf B.
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red - an R package to facilitate species red list assessments according to the IUCN criteria
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List is the most useful database of species that are at risk of extinction worldwide, as it relies on a number of objective criteria and is now widely adopted. The R package red – IUCN Redlisting
Pedro Cardoso
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Cyrtophora citricola (Araneae: Araneidae: Cyrtophorinae), a first record for Turkey [PDF]
We recorded the tent-web spider Cyrtophora citricola (Forsskål, 1775) (Araneidae: Cyrtophorinae) from Turkey for the first time at two sites. Body measurements and a brief description of the female are presented, as well as information on the sites ...
Elverici, Mert +3 more
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Blueprint for a high-performance biomaterial: full-length spider dragline silk genes. [PDF]
Spider dragline (major ampullate) silk outperforms virtually all other natural and manmade materials in terms of tensile strength and toughness. For this reason, the mass-production of artificial spider silks through transgenic technologies has been a ...
Ayoub, Nadia A +4 more
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A new record of the tarantula genus Phlogiellus Pocock, 1897 from Thailand is described. Distributional data, natural history, morphological characters, and illustrations of male and female are provided.
Narin Chomphuphuang +5 more
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