Silk Polymers - American Chemical Society

Silk Polymers - American Chemical Societyhttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/bk-1994-0544.ch005?src=recsysspider ecology represent one system where l...
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Chapter 5 Importance of Unique Silk Proteins to the Ecological and Evolutionary Diversity of Araneid Spiders

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Catherine L. Craig Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06525

A systematic survey of the spectral properties of unpigmented silks spun by spiders showed marked differences in their reflectance properties. Phylogenetically primitive spiders in the suborder Mygalomorphae spin silks characterized by a spectral peak in the ultraviolet (UV) region of the spectrum (