Figure 1.
Simple phylogeny of the species used in this study.
Haplogynes are in green, RTA clade spiders in yellow and Orbiculariae in red.
Figure 2.
Speed of dropping Larinioides cornutus (Orbiculariae, in red) and Peucetia viridans (RTA clade spider, in blue).
Table 1.
Material properties of silk obtained under different spinning conditions from six spider species (average ± SE).
Figure 3.
Material properties of FDL (red diamonds), DDL (green squares) and WDL (blue triangles) spun by Haplogynes (Hap), RTA clade spiders (RTA) and Orbiculariae (Orb).
Asterisks represent significant differences within a species at α = 0.05.