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Hers and his: Silk glands used in egg sac construction by female spiders potentially repurposed by a ‘modern’ male spider

Cylindrical silk gland (CY) spigots distinguish a large clade of modern spiders, the CY spigot clade, which includes all entelegyne spiders and their closest relatives. Following a widespread paradigm, CYs and their spigots are only known to occur in female spiders and they produce silk used in the...

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Autores principales: Townley, Mark A., Harms, Danilo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7170858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32313020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63521-7