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Silk Spinning in Silkworms and Spiders

Spiders and silkworms spin silks that outcompete the toughness of all natural and manmade fibers. Herein, we compare and contrast the spinning of silk in silkworms and spiders, with the aim of identifying features that are important for fiber formation. Although spiders and silkworms are very distan...

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Autores principales: Andersson, Marlene, Johansson, Jan, Rising, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5000687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27517908
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms17081290