Spring 2016 Web Collection

This week in lab I collected spider webs for an extraction next week. I went around campus and collected the webs of a few spiders that looked like they could possibly be black widows. I also went to ASU West and collected some webs from their lab spiders. I'm hoping the webs spun in captivity will have less contaminates than webs found in the environment so I can use them as a positive control. The DNA I extract from unknown webs on campus will be compared to the DNA extracted from the lab webs as well as a molecular weight ladder.