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Plasticity in Major Ampullate Silk Production in Relation to Spider Phylogeny and Ecology

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Possible functional significance of spigot placement on the spinnerets of spiders

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Behavioural and biomaterial coevolution in spider orb webs

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The design of self-collapsed super-strong nanotube bundles

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Nanostructure and molecular mechanics of spider dragline silk protein assemblies

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Molecular and Nanostructural Mechanisms of Deformation, Strength and Toughness of Spider Silk Fibrils

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Nanoconfinement controls stiffness, strength and mechanical toughness of β-sheet crystals in silk

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

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The elaborate structure of spider silk

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Conformation and Orientation of Proteins in Various Types of Silk Fibers Produced by Nephila clavipes Spiders

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Phylogenetic relationships of the spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae, Araneoidea) based on morphological and DNA sequence data

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Egg sac silk ofTheridiosoma gemmosum(Araneae: Theridiosomatidae)

(2009) Jaromír Hajer et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

The scaling of safety factor in spider draglines

(2008) C. Ortlepp et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Mechanical Properties of Silk: Interplay of Deformation on Macroscopic and Molecular Length Scales

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Determination of tensile strength distribution of nanotubes from testing of nanotube bundles

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