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

Web gigantism in Darwin's bark spider, a new species from Madagascar (Araneidae: Caerostris)

(2010) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

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

(2009) Manuel Elices et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

The evolution of complex biomaterial performance: The case of spider silk

(2009) B. O. Swanson et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Spider silk as a novel high performance biomimetic muscle driven by humidity

(2009) I. Agnarsson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

How super is supercontraction? Persistent versus cyclic responses to humidity in spider dragline silk

(2009) T. A. Blackledge et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Can a spider web be too sticky? Tensile mechanics constrains the evolution of capture spiral stickiness in orb-weaving spiders

(2009) I. Agnarsson et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Silks as ancient models for modern polymers

(2009) Fritz Vollrath et al.   POLYMER

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

Greatly Increased Toughness of Infiltrated Spider Silk

(2009) S.-M. Lee et al.   SCIENCE

Biomechanical variation of silk links spinning plasticity to spider web function

(2009) Cecilia Boutry et al.   ZOOLOGY

Spider silk aging: initial improvement in a high performance material followed by slow degradation

(2008) Ingi Agnarsson et al.   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology

The common house spider alters the material and mechanical properties of cobweb silk in response to different prey

(2008) Cecilia Boutry et al.   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology

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

(2007) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   CLADISTICS