Variation in the material properties of spider dragline silk across species

By Brook O. Swanson, T. Blackledge, J. Beltrán, C. Hayashi. 2006

149 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Genetics, Insect Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0af85188178ced4ac1323135a0e5fd0d188b31d5

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In Biomaterials

1. T. Blackledge

In Genetics

1. M. Kuntner
2. I. Agnarsson
3. T. Blackledge
4. Jonathan Coddington
5. G. Hormiga
6. William G. Eberhard
7. H. W. Levi

In Insect Science

1. I. Agnarsson

Citations in the corpus

• The Form and Function of Spider Orb Webs: Evolution from Silk to Ecosystems (2011, background): “Their major ampullate silk is significantly stronger and tougher, but slightly more compliant (lower Young’s modulus) compared to other taxa (Agnarsson et al., 2010, Swanson et al., 2006a).”