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Silk

Evidence of the Most Stretchable Egg Sac Silk Stalk, of the European Spider of the Year Meta menardi

Emiliano Lepore, Andrea Marchioro, Marco Isaia, Markus J. Buehler, Nicola M. Pugno

published 08 Feb 2012

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How Did the Spider Cross the River? Behavioral Adaptations for River-Bridging Webs in Caerostris darwini (Araneae: Araneidae)

Matjaž Gregorič, Ingi Agnarsson, Todd A. Blackledge, Matjaž Kuntner

published 26 Oct 2011

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

Cecilia Boutry, Milan Řezáč, Todd Alan Blackledge

published 27 Jul 2011

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Artificial Skin – Culturing of Different Skin Cell Lines for Generating an Artificial Skin Substitute on Cross-Weaved Spider Silk Fibres

Hanna Wendt, Anja Hillmer, Kerstin Reimers, Joern W. Kuhbier, Franziska Schäfer-Nolte, Christina Allmeling, Cornelia Kasper, Peter M. Vogt

published 26 Jul 2011

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Single Honeybee Silk Protein Mimics Properties of Multi-Protein Silk

Tara D. Sutherland, Jeffrey S. Church, Xiao Hu, Mickey G. Huson, David L. Kaplan, Sarah Weisman

published 02 Feb 2011

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Silkworm Coatomers and Their Role in Tube Expansion of Posterior Silkgland

Qiao Wang, Birong Shen, Pengli Zheng, Hui Feng, Liang Chen, Jing Zhang, Chuanxi Zhang, Guozheng Zhang, Junlin Teng, Jianguo Chen

published 12 Oct 2010

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

Ingi Agnarsson, Matjaž Kuntner, Todd A. Blackledge

published 16 Sep 2010

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Interactions between Spider Silk and Cells – NIH/3T3 Fibroblasts Seeded on Miniature Weaving Frames

Joern W. Kuhbier, Christina Allmeling, Kerstin Reimers, Anja Hillmer, Cornelia Kasper, Bjoern Menger, Gudrun Brandes, Merlin Guggenheim, Peter M. Vogt

published 09 Aug 2010

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Composition and Hierarchical Organisation of a Spider Silk

Alexander Sponner, Wolfram Vater, Shamci Monajembashi, Eberhard Unger, Frank Grosse, Klaus Weisshart

published 03 Oct 2007

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Blueprint for a High-Performance Biomaterial: Full-Length Spider Dragline Silk Genes

Nadia A. Ayoub, Jessica E. Garb, Robin M. Tinghitella, Matthew A. Collin, Cheryl Y. Hayashi

published 13 Jun 2007

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