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Figure 5


Fig. 5. Supercontracted properties of Nephila MA silk. Note that the individual samples were not tested to failure, but to the highest strain possible with each experimental setup. (A) The completed data set; (B) the average behaviour of the data set. Predicted values were averaged from all the curves for which a value was available. Filled squares represent values averaged from all 24 tests and open squares represent values averaged from all tests for which a value at that extension was available. The numbers above each data point are the number of curves included in the average. The calculated average curve is fitted to a third order polynomial, 266.23x3+81.42x2+89.11x–2.21, r2=0.97. Error bars are one standard deviation. Each sample was from a different spider.





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