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Early Events in the Evolution of Spider Silk Genes

Silk spinning is essential to spider ecology and has had a key role in the expansive diversification of spiders. Silk is composed primarily of proteins called spidroins, which are encoded by a multi-gene family. Spidroins have been studied extensively in the derived clade, Orbiculariae (orb-weavers)...

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Autores principales: Starrett, James, Garb, Jessica E., Kuelbs, Amanda, Azubuike, Ugochi O., Hayashi, Cheryl Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3382249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22761664
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038084