After mating , a female Goliath lays about fifty eggs in a silk egg sac . She stores the sac in her burrow and guards the eggs until they hatch in about six to seven weeks . The little spiderlings stay under her watchful eye...
The biotech company started by making a spider-silk-like material in the lab and has since expanded its fabric range to include more sustainable alternatives to wool and cashmere, says Kenji Higashi, head of business development at Spiber.Spiders create webs by giving out liquid protein that ...
The goats then have the genes that tell their bodies how to make spider silk proteins(蛋白质).Proteins are the body's basic building blocks, which make its hair, skin, and muscles. The goats now have special proteins for making spider silk. When the goats produce milk, the spider silk ...
Fig. 1: Loxosceles spider, its silk, and the investigated samples. a False-colored scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a strand of the ribbon silk of a Loxosceles (recluse) spider, which is entirely composed of nanofibrils (n = 5 independent SEM experiments)6. b A female Chile...
(Zool.)a large spider (Nephila plumipes), native of the Southern United States, remarkable for the large quantity of strong silk it produces and for the great disparity in the sizes of the sexes. See also:Silk Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co...
silk motifs;Each iteration segmentFrom the N end to the C-terminal directionOne or more copy elastic motifsAn optional segment including an optional linker and one or more intensity motifs(c) nucleic acid containing the C-terminal domain (CTD) of the FHC silk polypeptide of Bombyx mori.Diagram...
Tens of thousands of spider species have been identified throughout the world. These arachnids have eight legs, two body segments, and no wings or antennae. Spiders have three or four pairs of eyes. Many spiders have poor vision, but some species of spiders, such as the jumping spider, hav...
根据第一段的Spider(蜘蛛)silk,which is five times stronger than steel,no longer holds the record as the strongest material found in nature.Scientists have discovered that the teeth of a limpet (帽贝) are made of even tougher material表示"虽然蜘蛛丝的强度是钢的五倍,但是它不再是自然界中最坚固...
A spider produces a sticky liquid(液体) from its body. That liquid grows hard into a strong silk thread. Scientists are working to make silk that is as strong as a spider's. They are getting closer to learning how. What did scientists learn? “We use lots of different machines to see...
Spider - Webs, Silk, Predators: Spiders that use silk to capture prey utilize various techniques. Many web spiders construct silk sheets in vegetation; the most elaborate webs are those of the orb weavers. Order Araneida (Araneae) has more than 46,700 sp