| Females hunted for araneid spiders among the dense vegetation bordering the sand in which they nested. |
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| First, ML analysis grouped araneid AcSp1 repeats into well-supported, species-specific clades rather than grouping the repeats across species. |
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| The AcSp1 repeat units from L. hesperus and U. diversus are almost twice as long as the araneid AcSp1 repeat units. |
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| The largest known fossil spider as of 2011 is the araneid Nephila jurassica, from about, recorded from Daohuogo, Inner Mongolia in China. |
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| Our comparison of A. trifasciata AcSp1 repeat sequence with that of other araneid species indicates that a specific amino acid sequence is maintained in the predicted helix-rich domain of AcSp1 repeats across Araneidae. |
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| Longer estimated divergence times between the species in our present study may explain the more thorough homogenization of araneid AcSp1 sequences compared to that of the previously studied Nephila Flag sequences. |
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| Comparative study of orb web hygroscopicity and adhesive spiral composition in three araneid spiders. |
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| However, araneid AcSp1 first and last repeats still grouped within species-specific clades, suggesting that these repeat sequences are more homogeneous within a gene than those of previously analyzed spidroins. |
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