Conservation of essential design features in coiled coil silks

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2424-2432

  Sutherland, Tara D ^a   Weisman, Sarah ^a   Trueman, Holly E ^a   Sriskantha, Alagacone ^a   Trueman, John W H ^b   Haritos, Victoria S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ants; Bees; Coiled coils; Silk; Social insects

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; FIBROIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANT; ARTICLE; BEE; BUMBLEBEE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HONEYBEE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; SILK;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTS; BEES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIBROINS; GENE LIBRARY; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SILK; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASPS;

ACULEATA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOCRITA; APOIDEA; ARANEAE; CHRYSIDOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; OECOPHYLLINI; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 35848957696     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm171     Document Type: Article

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