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Hello Dear Backers:

I can't find good enough words to express my most sincere gratitude to all of you who have supported in one way or another this project. We are over 50% funded as of now and is thanks to you.

However I most ask for your aid once more. In this last critical hours of the campaign, 33 hours left, it would be of great help if you could share this with friends, family or anyone you might now might be interested in supporting this cool research; or even post it in all of your social media apps.

Thank you once again for all your support. If we don't make it we can say we try :).

Fun fact. Tetragnatha quasimodo. This little fella is part of a lineage of Tetragnatha in Hawaii who have abandon web building behaviors. They no longer built webs... How cool is that!

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About This Project

Silks are the toughest natural materials and spiders use them to build both its home and restaurant. Orb web shape diversified in a rapid, predictable fashion during evolution of endemic Hawaiian spiders. We aim to characterize their silk properties to test if biomaterials evolve as quickly and predictably as behaviors during adaptive radiation. This will provide important insight into the evolution of animal form and function and aid the development of spider silk-inspired fibers and adhesives.

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