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Spiders

Mechanical and structural properties of major ampullate silk from spiders fed carbon nanomaterials

Sean P. Kelly, Kun-Ping Huang, Chen-Pan Liao, Riza Ariyani Nur Khasanah, Forest Shih-Sen Chien, Jwu-Sheng Hu, Chung-Lin Wu, I-Min Tso

published 09 Nov 2020

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Artificial light at night at the terrestrial-aquatic interface: Effects on predators and fluxes of insect prey

Elizabeth Parkinson, Justine Lawson, Scott D. Tiegs

published 08 Oct 2020

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Ocrepeira klamt sp. n. (Araneae: Araneidae), a novel spider species from an Andean páramo in Colombia

Charlotte Hopfe, Bryan Ospina-Jara, Thomas Scheibel, Jimmy Cabra-García

published 24 Aug 2020

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Imperfect and askew: A review of asymmetric genitalia in araneomorph spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)

Francisco Andres Rivera-Quiroz, Menno Schilthuizen, Booppa Petcharad, Jeremy A. Miller

published 15 Jun 2020

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Multimodal and multifunctional signaling? – Web reduction courtship behavior in a North American population of the false black widow spider

Andreas Fischer, Xiang Hao Goh, Jamie-Lynne S. Varney, Adam J. Blake, Stephen Takács, Gerhard Gries

published 26 Feb 2020

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Disentangling the coexistence strategies of mud-daubing wasp species through trophic analysis in oases of Baja California peninsula

Armando Falcón-Brindis, Ricardo Rodríguez-Estrella, María Luisa Jiménez

published 21 Nov 2019

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Urticating setae of tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae): Morphology, revision of typology and terminology and implications for taxonomy

Radan Kaderka, Jana Bulantová, Petr Heneberg, Milan Řezáč

published 11 Nov 2019

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Niche partitioning and coexistence of two spiders of the genus Peucetia (Araneae, Oxyopidae) inhabiting Trichogoniopsis adenantha plants (Asterales, Asteraceae)

German Antonio Villanueva-Bonilla, Suyen Safuan-Naide, Mathias Mistretta Pires, João Vasconcellos-Neto

published 02 Oct 2019

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Expression profile of genes encoding allatoregulatory neuropeptides in females of the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum (Araneae, Theridiidae)

Marta Katarzyna Sawadro, Agata Wanda Bednarek, Agnieszka Ewa Molenda, Agnieszka Izabela Babczyńska

published 10 Sep 2019

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Urban heat island conditions experienced by the Western black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus): Extreme heat slows development but results in behavioral accommodations

J. Chadwick Johnson, Javier Urcuyo, Claire Moen, Dale R. Stevens II

published 06 Sep 2019

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Composite spheres made of bioengineered spider silk and iron oxide nanoparticles for theranostics applications

Kamil Kucharczyk, Jakub Dalibor Rybka, Michael Hilgendorff, Michal Krupinski, Mariusz Slachcinski, Andrzej Mackiewicz, Michael Giersig, Hanna Dams-Kozlowska

published 15 Jul 2019

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Comparative morphology refines the conventional model of spider reproduction

Yongjia Zhan, He Jiang, Qingqing Wu, Huitao Zhang, Zishang Bai, Matjaž Kuntner, Lihong Tu

published 05 Jul 2019

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Metagenomic analyses reveal previously unrecognized variation in the diets of sympatric Old World monkey species

Martha M. Lyke, Anthony Di Fiore, Noah Fierer, Anne A. Madden, Joanna E. Lambert

published 26 Jun 2019

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