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Spiders

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

Kamil Kucharczyk, Jakub Dalibor Rybka, [ ... ], Hanna Dams-Kozlowska

Comparative morphology refines the conventional model of spider reproduction

Yongjia Zhan, He Jiang, [ ... ], Lihong Tu

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

Martha M. Lyke, Anthony Di Fiore, [ ... ], Joanna E. Lambert

Assembling a DNA barcode reference library for the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Pakistan

Muhammad Ashfaq, Gergin Blagoev, [ ... ], Paul D. N. Hebert

Small size does not confer male agility advantages in a sexually-size dimorphic spider

Shakira G. Quiñones-Lebrón, Matjaž Gregorič, Matjaž Kuntner, Simona Kralj-Fišer

Pore-forming spider venom peptides show cytotoxicity to hyperpolarized cancer cells expressing K⁺ channels: A lentiviral vector approach

Masayoshi Okada, Ernesto Ortiz, Gerardo Corzo, Lourival D. Possani

Does prey encounter and nutrient content affect prey selection in wolf spiders inhabiting Bt cotton fields?

Dalila Rendon, Phillip W. Taylor, Shawn M. Wilder, Mary E. A. Whitehouse

Dual pathways in social evolution: Population genetic structure of group-living and solitary species of kleptoparasitic spiders (Argyrodinae: Theridiidae)

Yong-Chao Su, Po Peng, Mark Adrian Elgar, Deborah Roan Smith

Natural succession and clearcutting as drivers of environmental heterogeneity and beta diversity in North American boreal forests

Sergio García-Tejero, John R. Spence, [ ... ], Anne Oxbrough

Major ampullate silk gland transcriptomes and fibre proteomes of the golden orb-weavers, Nephila plumipes and Nephila pilipes (Araneae: Nephilidae)

Alessandra D. Whaite, Tianfang Wang, Joanne Macdonald, Scott F. Cummins

Silk genes and silk gene expression in the spider Tengella perfuga (Zoropsidae), including a potential cribellar spidroin (CrSp)

Sandra M. Correa-Garhwal, R. Crystal Chaw, [ ... ], Cheryl Y. Hayashi

Understanding selective predation: Are energy and nutrients important?

Tamara I. Potter, Hayley J. Stannard, Aaron C. Greenville, Christopher R. Dickman

Predicting the distribution of poorly-documented species, Northern black widow (Latrodectus variolus) and Black purse-web spider (Sphodros niger), using museum specimens and citizen science data

Yifu Wang, Nicolas Casajus, [ ... ], Maxim Larrivée

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