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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 12.
Published in final edited form as: Microb Biotechnol. 2013 Nov;6(6):10.1111/1751-7915.12081. doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.12081

Figure 1.

Figure 1

(A) An adult female orb weaver spider, Nephila clavipes and her web. (B) Schematic overview of Nclavipes web composed of three different spider silk proteins and their structures. The colored boxes indicate the structural motifs in silk proteins. An empty box marked ‘?’ indicates that the secondary structure of the ‘spacer’ region is unknown. Note: MaSp1 or MaSp2: major ampullate spidroin 1 or 2; MiSp1 and 2: minor ampullate spidroin1 and 2; Flag: flagelliform protein. The photo was taken by Olena and Artem Tokarev in the Florida Keys.