Untangling spider silk evolution with spidroin terminal domains

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Garb, Jessica E ^a,b   Ayoub, Nadia A ^a,c   Hayashi, Cheryl Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE; HYDROPHOBICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTEIN; RECONSTRUCTION; SPIDER;

ARANEAE;

FIBROIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SPIDER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FIBROINS; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPIDERS;

EID: 77955292367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-243     Document Type: Article

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