Single-cell transcriptomics reveals the brain evolution of web ... - Nature
2023年11月2日 · Here we report a brain-cell atlas of >30,000 single-cell transcriptomes from a web-building spider (Hylyphantes graminicola). Our analysis revealed the preservation of ancestral neuron types in...
Spiders: Web of intrigue - Nature
2015年3月25日 · Many spiders can spin several silks: stiff, structural strands to stabilize their webs; gooey, stretchy spirals to capture flying insects; adhesive pads to anchor their homes in place; and...
Nonlinear material behaviour of spider silk yields robust webs | Nature
2012年2月1日 · Spider web deformation simulations, theory and experiments reveal how the nonlinear response of spider silk to strain and the discrete geometry of a web contribute to its robustness,...
Spiders Are Nature’s Best Engineers, and their Webs Prove It
2021年8月25日 · Spiders, "nature’s engineers," build lightweight and high-performance web architectures with surprising strength and other capabilities.
14 of the Most Elaborate Spider Webs Ever Found in Nature
2022年12月9日 · Researchers aren’t sure why some orb-weaving spiders do this—it could be to camouflage themselves or to look bigger to predators, or to make their webs more visible to creatures (like humans ...
Orb weavers: Patterns in the movement sequences of spider web ...
2021年11月22日 · Spiders use distinct limb and body movements for tactile exploration of the web, walking on it, and pulling and attaching silk. These repeated movements were discovered using new, automated deep-learning body-part trackers (DeepLabCut 2 and LEAP 3).
Nature's DNA traps: Spider webs put new spin on wildlife research
2024年1月31日 · Spiders might be silent heroes in helping us understand and keep track of animals, with new Curtin research revealing their webs act like natural traps for tiny bits of environmental DNA (eDNA...
How to Recognize Spiders By their Webs - Bay Nature Magazine
2015年9月29日 · Spider webs can be found in almost every imaginable place — even underwater — and have allowed spiders to populate every continent except frigid Antarctica. And there’s probably some spider out there working on how to exploit that last frontier (maybe with a …
Imaging and analysis of a three-dimensional spider web …
2018年9月19日 · However, only 10% of spider species are orb-web weavers, and three-dimensional (3D) webs, such as funnel, sheet or cobwebs, are much more abundant in nature. The complex spatial network and microscale size of silk fibres are significant challenges towards determining the topology of 3D webs, and only a limited number of previous studies have ...
In situ three-dimensional spider web construction and mechanics
2021年8月9日 · Spider webs are naturally subject to projectile impact from prey, predators, and debris, which is why webs are rarely found intact in nature. Here, we investigate the prey-catching performance of the T. sisyphoides under different stages of construction to test the hypothesis that spider webs are functional throughout construction.