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Xanthurenic Acid Is the Main Pigment of Trichonephila clavata Gold Dragline Silk

open access: yesBiomolecules, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Molecular Spiders with Memory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
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
core   +1 more source

Differing Dietary Nutrients and Diet-Associated Bacteria Has Limited Impact on Spider Gut Microbiota Composition

open access: yesMicroorganisms, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Resistance status of the carmine spider mite, Tetranychus cinnabarinus and the twospotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae to selected acaricides on strawberries. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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
core   +1 more source

Species conservation profile of the stenoendemic cave spider Pimoa delphinica (Araneae, Pimoidae) from the Varaita valley (NW-Italy)

open access: yesBiodiversity Data Journal, 2017
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
doaj   +3 more sources

A \u3ci\u3ePerithous\u3c/i\u3e (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) Introduced from Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
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.
core   +2 more sources

red - an R package to facilitate species red list assessments according to the IUCN criteria

open access: yesBiodiversity Data Journal, 2017
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
doaj   +3 more sources

Cyrtophora citricola (Araneae: Araneidae: Cyrtophorinae), a first record for Turkey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
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
core   +2 more sources

Blueprint for a high-performance biomaterial: full-length spider dragline silk genes. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
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
core   +4 more sources

New species of Southeast Asian Dwarf Tarantula from Thailand: Phlogiellus Pocock, 1897 (Theraphosidae, Selenocosmiinae)

open access: yesZooKeys, 2017
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
doaj   +3 more sources

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