Sophie was no ordinary house spider. Sophie was an artist.

索菲不是普通的家蜘蛛。索菲是一位艺术家。

The research team took their inspiration from the natural world, watching house spiders move up and down their webs.

研究小组是从自然世界中汲取的灵感，他们观察到蜘蛛在网上上下移动。

Instead they turned to the genome of its relative, the common house spider.

相反，他们转向了其亲戚普通家蛛的基因组。

Curiously, the house spider's latrotoxin genes match up best with a bacterial gene.

奇怪的是，家蜘蛛的 latrotoxin 基因与细菌基因最匹配。

47 toxins known as latrotoxins were found in common house spider venom, even though these spiders aren't known to have painful bites.

在普通家蛛的毒液中发现了 47 种被称为 latrotoxins 的毒素，尽管这些蜘蛛的咬伤并不痛。