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NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN
Volume 87, Issue 3, Pages 148-153Publisher
SPRINGER VERLAG
DOI: 10.1007/s001140050694
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CO2 and N-2 anesthetized Nephila spiders produced dragline silk with mechanical properties that differed from control silk as a function of time under anesthesia. Silk from CO2 spiders had a significantly lower breaking strain and breaking energy, significantly higher initial modulus, and marginally lower breaking stress. At the onset of anesthesia the silk diameter became highly variable. During deep anesthesia silk either became thinner or retained cross-section but fibrillated.
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