Chapter 1 Wild Silk Production to Support Farmers Excluded from Protected Areas in Madagascar

Chapter 2 Evolutionary Divergence of Lepidopteran and Trichopteran Fibroins

Chapter 3 The Silk I and Lamella Structures of (Ala-Gly) 15 as the Model of Bombyx mori Silk Fibroin Studied with Solid State NMR

Chapter 4 Application of Bombyx mori Silk Fibroin as a Biomaterial for Vascular Grafts

Chapter 5 Evolution and Application of Coiled Coil Silks from Insects

Chapter 6 Characterization of Underwater Silk Proteins from Caddisfly Larva, Stenopsyche marmorata

Chapter 7 Atomic Force Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Silk from Spider Draglines, Capture-Web Spirals, and Silkworms

Chapter 8 Modular Spider Silk Fibers: Defining New Modules and Optimizing Fiber Properties

Chapter 9 How to Pass the Gap – Functional Morphology and Biomechanics of Spider Bridging Threads

Chapter 11 Prey Capture Adhesives Produced by Orb-Weaving Spiders

Chapter 12 Silk and Web Synergy: The Merging of Material and Structural Performance