The Spider Silk Standardization Initiative (S3I): A powerful tool to harness biological variability and to systematize the characterization of major ampullate silk fibers spun by spiders from suburban Sydney, Australia

Application of the Spider Silk Standardization Initiative (S3I) methodology to the characterization of major ampullate gland silk fibers spun by spiders from Pantanos de Villa wetlands (Lima, Peru)

(2020) Javier Garrote et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Mixture of Rectangular and Staggered Packing Arrangements of Polyalanine Region in Spider Dragline Silk in Dry and Hydrated States As Revealed by 13C NMR and X-ray Diffraction

(2018) Tetsuo Asakura et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Multiscale mechanisms of nutritionally induced property variation in spider silks

(2018) Sean J. Blamires et al.   PLoS One

Material properties of evolutionary diverse spider silks described by variation in a single structural parameter

(2016) Rodrigo Madurga et al.   Scientific Reports

Sequential origin in the high performance properties of orb spider dragline silk

(2012) Todd A. Blackledge et al.   Scientific Reports

Plasticity in extended phenotypes: orb web architectural responses to variations in prey parameters

(2010) S. J. Blamires   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Evolution of supercontraction in spider silk: structure-function relationship from tarantulas to orb-weavers

(2010) C. Boutry et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Spider Silk: From Soluble Protein to Extraordinary Fiber

(2009) Markus Heim et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era

(2009) T. A. Blackledge et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fossil evidence for the origin of spider spinnerets, and a proposed arachnid order

(2008) P. A. Selden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA