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Multi-tissue transcriptomics of the black widow spider reveals expansions, co-options, and functional processes of the silk gland gene toolkit

BACKGROUND: Spiders (Order Araneae) are essential predators in every terrestrial ecosystem largely because they have evolved potent arsenals of silk and venom. Spider silks are high performance materials made almost entirely of proteins, and thus represent an ideal system for investigating genome le...

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Autores principales: Clarke, Thomas H, Garb, Jessica E, Hayashi, Cheryl Y, Haney, Robert A, Lancaster, Alexander K, Corbett, Susan, Ayoub, Nadia A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4200122/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24916340
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-365