Nanotechnology has remained relevant as a multifacet discipline, which cuts across different
areas of science and technology. Several successful attempts had been documented …

Bionic building energy efficiency and bionic green architecture are important means of
ensuring harmony between buildings and the natural environment, maintaining ecological …

ABSTRACT Spiders (Order Araneae) are massively abundant generalist arthropod
predators that are found in nearly every ecosystem on the planet and have persisted for over …

Higher-level classifications often must account for monotypic taxa representing depauperate
evolutionary lineages and lacking synapomorphies of their better-known, well-defined sister …

Spider silks are the toughest known biological materials, yet are lightweight and virtually
invisible to the human immune system, and they thus have revolutionary potential for …

Instances of sexual size dimorphism (SSD) provide the context for rigorous tests of biological
rules of size evolution, such as Cope's rule (phyletic size increase), Rensch's rule (allometric …

In this study, spider cobweb as a novel biomaterial was used for the green synthesis of silver
nanoparticles (AgNPs). The synthesized AgNPs were characterized using UV–Vis …

Spiders are among the most varied terrestrial predators, with highly diverse morphology,
ecology, and behavior. Morphological and molecular data have greatly contributed to …

The kinetic energy of flying insect prey is a formidable challenge for orb-weaving spiders.
These spiders construct two-dimensional, round webs from a combination of stiff, strong …

The field of systematics involves at least three major elements: biodiversity exploration
(inventory); taxonomic discovery and description (taxonomy); and the estimation of …