Ancient Properties of Spider Silks Revealed by the Complete Gene Sequence of the Prey-Wrapping Silk Protein (AcSp1)

Early Events in the Evolution of Spider Silk Genes

(2012) James Starrett et al.   PLoS One

The role of terminal domains during storage and assembly of spider silk proteins

(2011) Lukas Eisoldt et al.   BIOPOLYMERS

Mapping intact protein isoforms in discovery mode using top-down proteomics

(2011) John C. Tran et al.   NATURE

Untangling spider silk evolution with spidroin terminal domains

(2010) Jessica E Garb et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Spider silk proteins: recent advances in recombinant production, structure–function relationships and biomedical applications

(2010) Anna Rising et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Solid-state NMR evidence for elastin-like β-turn structure in spider dragline silk

(2010) Janelle E. Jenkins et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Containment of Extended Length Polymorphisms in Silk Proteins

(2010) Alberto Chinali et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Self-assembly of spider silk proteins is controlled by a pH-sensitive relay

(2010) Glareh Askarieh et al.   NATURE

A conserved spider silk domain acts as a molecular switch that controls fibre assembly

(2010) Franz Hagn et al.   NATURE

Bioprospecting Finds the Toughest Biological Material: Extraordinary Silk from a Giant Riverine Orb Spider

(2010) Ingi Agnarsson et al.   PLoS One

DnaSP v5: a software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism data

(2009) P. Librado et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Mechanical Behavior of Silk During the Evolution of Orb-Web Spinning Spiders

(2009) Manuel Elices et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Quantitative Correlation between the Protein Primary Sequences and Secondary Structures in Spider Dragline Silks

(2009) Janelle E. Jenkins et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Pyriform Spidroin 1, a Novel Member of the Silk Gene Family That Anchors Dragline Silk Fibers in Attachment Discs of the Black Widow Spider,Latrodectus hesperus

(2009) Eric Blasingame et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Quantifying the fraction of glycine and alanine in β-sheet and helical conformations in spider dragline silk using solid-state NMR

(2008) Gregory P. Holland et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Reconciliation with Non-Binary Species Trees

(2008) Benjamin Vernot et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

Determining Secondary Structure in Spider Dragline Silk by Carbon−Carbon Correlation Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

(2008) Gregory P. Holland et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

jModelTest: Phylogenetic Model Averaging

(2008) D. Posada   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies

(2007) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   CLADISTICS

Multiple Recombining Loci Encode MaSp1, the Primary Constituent of Dragline Silk, in Widow Spiders (Latrodectus: Theridiidae)

(2007) N. A. Ayoub et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION