Different species of spiders produce different silks that serve different purposes, from floating on air to cradling eggs.

The triangle weaver spider, Hyptiotes cavatus, weaves and holds a three-sided web under tension, which it releases the moment prey flies into the web. Jessica Garb and colleagues sequenced the genome ...

Different species of spiders produce different silks that serve different purposes, from floating on air to cradling eggs. The triangle weaver spider ...