Spider Pharm has provided several species on a custom basis for ecotox and other studies, including wolf, lynx, cellar and house spiders.
Spiders are important components of most terrestrial ecosystems and, in many cases, also help to control pest populations. Thus it is important to measure and monitor the effects of pesticides, biopesticides and metabolites on spiders and other predators.
Spider assays can also be very sensitive indicators of the effects of compounds without acute toxicity or sub-lethal doses. In particular, orb-web construction and structure is a very quantifiable and sensitive method for detecting systemic activities.
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