Table 1.
Results of a multi-factorial analysis of variance (MANOVA) to compare the change in mean (μpost-μpre) percent composition of five amino acids: glutamine, serine, proline, glycine, and alanine.
Table 2.
Mean (±SE) pre (μpre) and post (μpost) treatment amino acid compositions of Argiope aetherea (a), Cyrtophora moluccensis (b) and Leucauge blanda (c) MA silks, showing the results of a paired MANOVA (F-scores) and Newman-Keuls (N-K) post-hoc tests comparing μpre–μpost compositions between treatments.
Table 3.
Results of a multi-factorial analysis of variance (MANOVA) to compare the change in mean (μpost-μpre) mechanical properties; ultimate strength, toughness, extensibility and Young's modulus.
Table 4.
Mean (± SE) pre- (μpre) and post- (μpost) treatment mechanical properties: ultimate strength (MPa), extensibility (%), toughness (MJ/m3), Young's modulus (GPa), and thread diameter (µm) of Argiope aetherea (a), Cyrtophora moluccensis (b) and Leucauge blanda (c) MA silks, showing the results of a paired MANOVA (F-scores) and Newman-Keuls (N-K) post-hoc tests comparing μpre–μpost compositions between treatments.
Table 5.
Regression analysis between MA silk mechanical properties; ultimate strength, extensibility, toughness, Young's modulus and thread length, and the compositions of the amino acids glutamine, serine, proline, glycine, and alanine, treatment (HP, LP or NP entered as 56%, 25% and 0% protein respectively), and the phylogenetic branch lengths (in arbitrary units derived from [43]).
Table 6.
The correlation matrix derived from a multiple regression between MA silk mechanical properties; ultimate strength (US), extensibility, toughness, Young's modulus (YM) and thread diameter (TD), and the compositions of the amino acids glutamine (GLU), serine (SER), proline (PRO), glycine (GLY), and alanine (ALA), treatment (HP, LP or NP entered as 56%, 25% and 0% protein respectively), and phylogenetic branch lengths (BL; in arbitrary units derived from [43]).