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List of works by Todd A Blackledge

A molecular phylogeny of bark spiders reveals new species from Africa and Madagascar (Araneae: Araneidae:Caerostris)

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Adhesion modulation using glue droplet spreading in spider capture silk.

scientific article

Are three-dimensional spider webs defensive adaptations?

scientific article published in 2002

Biomaterial evolution parallels behavioral innovation in the origin of orb-like spider webs ⬇️

scientific article published on November 12, 2012

Biomechanical variation of silk links spinning plasticity to spider web function

scientific article published on 31 August 2009

Bioprospecting Finds the Toughest Biological Material: Extraordinary Silk from a Giant Riverine Orb Spider ⬇️

scientific article published on September 16, 2010

Blue reflectance in tarantulas is evolutionarily conserved despite nanostructural diversity

scientific article

Blue tarantulas and dancing rainbow spiders inspire new color technologies (Conference Presentation)

scholarly article published 10 May 2017

Changes in the Adhesive Properties of Spider Aggregate Glue During the Evolution of Cobwebs ⬇️

scientific article published on July 21, 2011

Cobweb-weaving spiders produce different attachment discs for locomotion and prey capture ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Composition and Function of Spider Glues Maintained During the Evolution of Cobwebs

scientific article published on 31 August 2015

Conflicts around a study of Mexican crops

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Convergent evolution of behavior in an adaptive radiation of Hawaiian web-building spiders

scholarly article

Damping capacity is evolutionarily conserved in the radial silk of orb-weaving spiders.

scientific article published on 30 June 2011

Darwin's bark spider: giant prey in giant orb webs (Caerostris darwini, Araneae: Araneidae)?

scholarly article by Matjaž Gregorič et al published August 2011 in Journal of Arachnology

Direct solvation of glycoproteins by salts in spider silk glues enhances adhesion and helps to explain the evolution of modern spider orb webs

scientific article

Do electrospun polymer fibers stick?

scientific article

Does the Giant Wood Spider Nephila pilipes Respond to Prey Variation by Altering Web or Silk Properties?

scientific article published on 27 March 2007

ESTIMATION OF CAPTURE AREAS OF SPIDER ORB WEBS IN RELATION TO ASYMMETRY

scientific article published in 2002

Evolution of stenophagy in spiders (Araneae): evidence based on the comparative analysis of spider diets.

scientific article published on 31 October 2011

Fecundity increase supports adaptive radiation hypothesis in spider web evolution

scientific article

Functional trade-offs in cribellate silk mediated by spinning behavior

scientific article published on 24 June 2019

Functionally independent components of prey capture are architecturally constrained in spider orb webs

scientific article published on October 2007

Gumfooted lines in black widow cobwebs and the mechanical properties of spider capture silk

scientific article

High-performance spider webs: integrating biomechanics, ecology and behaviour

scientific article (publication date: 6 April 2011)

How Did the Spider Cross the River? Behavioral Adaptations for River-Bridging Webs in Caerostris darwini (Araneae: Araneidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on October 26, 2011

How super is supercontraction? Persistent versus cyclic responses to humidity in spider dragline silk

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Hygroscopic compounds in spider aggregate glue remove interfacial water to maintain adhesion in humid conditions.

scientific article

Material properties of evolutionary diverse spider silks described by variation in a single structural parameter.

scientific article

Mechanical performance of spider orb webs is tuned for high-speed prey.

scientific article

Mechanical performance of spider silk is robust to nutrient-mediated changes in protein composition

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Mechanical properties of the chitin-calcium-phosphate “clam shrimp” carapace (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata): implications for taphonomy and fossilization

scientific article published in 2015

Mesh Width Influences Prey Retention in Spider Orb Webs

Molecular and mechanical characterization of aciniform silk: uniformity of iterated sequence modules in a novel member of the spider silk fibroin gene family

scientific article published on 7 July 2004

New Curimatid, Cyphocharax laticlavius (Ostariophysi, Characiformes), from Amazonian Ecuador, with a Major Range Extension for C. gouldingi

scientific article published on 2 February 1996

Nutrient deprivation induces property variations in spider gluey silk

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

PREDATORY INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MUD-DAUBER WASPS (HYMENOPTERA, SPHECIDAE) AND ARGIOPE (ARANEAE, ARANEIDAE) IN CAPTIVITY

scholarly article by Todd A. Blackledge & Kurt M. Pickett published September 2000 in Journal of Arachnology

Phylogenetic position and composition of Zygiellinae and Caerostris, with new insight into orb-web evolution and gigantism

scientific article published in 2015

Phylogeny of the orb‐weaving spider family Araneidae (Araneae: Araneoidea)

scientific article published in 2019

Physicochemical Property Variation in Spider Silk: Ecology, Evolution, and Synthetic Production

scientific article published on 7 December 2016

Post-secretion processing influences spider silk performance ⬇️

scientific article published on May 23, 2012

Prey capture in orb weaving spiders: are we using the best metric?

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Protein composition correlates with the mechanical properties of spider ( Argiope trifasciata ) dragline silk

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

Punctuated evolution of viscid silk in spider orb webs supported by mechanical behavior of wet cribellate silk

scientific article published on 27 July 2017

Quasistatic and continuous dynamic characterization of the mechanical properties of silk from the cobweb of the black widow spider Latrodectus hesperus

scientific article

Rainbow peacock spiders inspire miniature super-iridescent optics

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era

scientific article

Robust Performance of Spider Viscid Silk on Hairy and Smooth Insect Substrates

scientific article published on 12 April 2021

Role of Hygroscopic Low Molecular Mass Compounds in Humidity Responsive Adhesion of Spider's Capture Silk

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

SILK MEDIATED DEFENSE BY AN ORB WEB SPIDER AGAINST PREDATORY MUD-DAUBER WASPS

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SPIDER DRAGLINE SILK: CORRELATED AND MOSAIC EVOLUTION IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS

scientific article published on 08 May 2007

Sequential origin in the high performance properties of orb spider dragline silk ⬇️

scientific article published on October 29, 2012

Shifting continents, not behaviours: independent colonization of solitary and subsocialAnelosimusspider lineages on Madagascar (Araneae, Theridiidae)

scientific article published in 2010

Silk structure rather than tensile mechanics explains web performance in the moth-specialized spider, Cyrtarachne

scientific article published on 10 July 2018

Silken toolkits: biomechanics of silk fibers spun by the orb web spider Argiope argentata (Fabricius 1775).

scientific article

Slingshot spiders build tensed, underdamped webs for ultrafast launches and speedy halts

Spider capture silk: performance implications of variation in an exceptional biomaterial

scientific article published in November 2007

Spider dragline silk: correlated and mosaic evolution in high-performance biological materials

scientific article published in December 2006

Spider orb webs rely on radial threads to absorb prey kinetic energy ⬇️

scientific article published on March 19, 2012

Spider silk aging: initial improvement in a high performance material followed by slow degradation

scientific article

Spider silk as a novel high performance biomimetic muscle driven by humidity

scientific article

Spider silk: a brief review and prospectus on research linking biomechanics and ecology in draglines and orb webs

scientific article published in 2012

Spiders Tune Glue Viscosity to Maximize Adhesion

scientific article

Spiders do have melanin after all.

scientific article published on 8 October 2015

Spiders have rich pigmentary and structural colour palettes

scientific article published on June 2017

Structural Colors: Tarantula-Inspired Noniridescent Photonics with Long-Range Order (Advanced Optical Materials 2/2017)

Structural color and its interaction with other color-producing elements: perspectives from spiders

scholarly article published 8 September 2014

Supercontraction forces in spider dragline silk depend on hydration rate

scientific article published on 23 May 2009

Supersaturation with water explains the unusual adhesion of aggregate glue in the webs of the moth-specialist spider, Cyrtarachne akirai

scientific article published on 07 November 2018

Systematics of the New Australasian Orb-weaving Spider Genus Backobourkia (Araneae: Araneidae: Araneinae) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2010

Tarantula-Inspired Noniridescent Photonics with Long-Range Order

article published in 2016

The Form and Function of Spider Orb Webs

The common house spider alters the material and mechanical properties of cobweb silk in response to different prey

scientific article published in November 2008

The moth specialist spider Cyrtarachne akirai uses prey scales to increase adhesion

scientific article published on 29 January 2020

The phylogenetic placement of Psechridae within Entelegynae and the convergent origin of orb-like spider webs

scientific article published on 07 November 2012

The transcriptome of Darwin's bark spider silk glands predicts proteins contributing to dragline silk toughness

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

Tuning orb spider glycoprotein glue performance to habitat humidity

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

Ubiquitous distribution of salts and proteins in spider glue enhances spider silk adhesion

scientific article

Uncoiling springs promote mechanical functionality of spider cribellate silk

scientific article published on 28 February 2020

Unraveling the mechanical properties of composite silk threads spun by cribellate orb-weaving spiders

scientific article published in August 2006

Viscoelastic solids explain spider web stickiness ⬇️

scientific article published on May 17, 2010

Webs in vitro and in vivo: spiders alter their orb-web spinning behavior in the laboratory

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Wet webs work better: Humidity, supercontraction and the performance of spider orb webs ⬇️

scientific article published on June 20, 2013

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