ArticleScientific reports2016
Spider web and silk performance landscapes across nutrient space.
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- Anti-Coagulant and Antimicrobial Recombinant Heparin-Binding Major Ampullate Spidroin 2 (MaSp2) Silk Protein.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Basic Principles in the Design of Spider Silk Fibers.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- The Shared Use of Extended Phenotypes Increases the Fitness of Simulated Populations.Frontiers in genetics · 2021Article
- Mechanical and structural properties of major ampullate silk from spiders fed carbon nanomaterials.PloS one · 2020Article
- The common house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum, maintains silk gene expression on sub-optimal diet.PloS one · 2020Article
- Silk physico-chemical variability and mechanical robustness facilitates intercontinental invasibility of a spider.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Modelling temperature and humidity effects on web performance: implications for predicting orb-web spider (Conservation physiology · 2019Article
- Mechanical properties of silk of the Australian golden orb weaversBiology open · 2018Article
- The Drivers of Heuristic Optimization in Insect Object Manufacture and Use.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Review
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Abstract
Predators have been shown to alter their foraging as a regulatory response to recent feeding history, but it remains unknown whether trap building predators modulate their traps similarly as a regulatory strategy. Here we fed the orb web spider Nephila pilipes either live crickets, dead crickets with webs stimulated by flies, or dead crickets without web stimulation, over 21 days to enforce spiders to differentially extract nutrients from a single prey source. In addition to the nutrients extracted we measured web architectures, silk tensile properties, silk amino acid compositions, and web tension after each feeding round. We then plotted web and silk "performance landscapes" across nutrient space. The landscapes had multiple peaks and troughs for each web and silk performance parameter. The findings suggest that N. pilipes plastically adjusts the chemical and physical properties of their web and silk in accordance with its nutritional history. Our study expands the application of the geometric framework foraging model to include a type of predatory trap. Whether it can be applied to other predatory traps requires further testing.
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