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Fig. 2 | Applied Microscopy

Fig. 2

From: Capture silk scaffold production in the cribellar web spider

Fig. 2

Scanning electron micrographs of the cribellum in the spider N. albofasciata. a, b The cribellar silk spinning system consists of bipartite cribellum (CB) plate which divided with left and right spinning fields. c, d A pair of cribellar plate with hundreds to thousands outlets are medially divided to form a symmetrical distribution of spinning apparatuses. e, f The surface of the cribellum is covered by numerous elongate spigots which producing numerous cribellate silk fibrils. Scale bars indicate 50 μm (a, b) and 20 μm (c-f)

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