ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2017
Strength of silk attachment to
Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Life inside a bag: multiomics insights into the bagworm species Eumeta crameri.DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes · 2025Article
- Comprehensive Transcriptomic Analyses of Silk-Associated Genes and Functional Characterization of Key Silk Fibroins inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Individual evaluation of attachment strength at each adhered point in the silk foothold constructed by bagworms for walking and dangling.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- A study of ladder-like silk foothold for the locomotion of bagworms.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The balance of crystalline and amorphous regions in the fibroin structure underpins the tensile strength of bagworm silk.Zoological letters · 2021Article
- Limits of piriform silk adhesion-similar effects of substrate surface polarity on silk anchor performance in two spider species with disparate microhabitat use.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2020Article
- A study of the extraordinarily strong and tough silk produced by bagworms.Nature communications · 2019Article
- The bagworm genome reveals a unique fibroin gene that provides high tensile strength.Communications biology · 2019Article
- The complete mitochondrial genome ofMitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources · 2018Article
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Abstract
Silks play an important role in the life of various arthropods. A highly neglected prerequisite to make versatile use of silks is sufficient attachment to substrates. Although there have been some studies on the structure and mechanics of silk anchorages of spiders, for insects only anecdotal reports on attachment-associated spinning behaviour exist. Here, we experimentally studied the silk attachment of the pupae and last instar caterpillars of the tea bagworm
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