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Microdissection of Black Widow Spider Silk-producing Glands
Published on: January 12, 2011
Transmission X-ray microscopy of spider dragline silk
Anja Glisović1, Jürgen Thieme, Peter Guttmann
1Institut für Röntgenphysik, Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
|August 8, 2006
Abstract:
We have investigated the structure of spider silk fibers from two different Nephila species and three different Araneus species by transmission X-ray microscopy (TXM). Single fibers and double fibers have been imaged. All images are in agreement with a homogenous density on length scales between the fiber diameter and the resolution of the instrument, which is about 25 nm.

