Spinning gland transcriptomics from two main clades of spiders (order: Araneae) - insights on their molecular, anatomical and behavioral evolution

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Prosdocimi, Francisco ^a,b   Bittencourt, Daniela ^c   da Silva, Felipe Rodrigues ^d   Kirst, Matias ^e   Motta, Paulo C ^f   Rech, Elibio L ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UCB   (Brazil)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^d EMBRAPA INFORMÁTICA AGROPECUÁRIA   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; INSECT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ACTINOPUS; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; FOOD WEB; GASTERACANTHA CANCRIFORMIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN DATABASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPIDER; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; EXOCRINE GLAND; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM;

ARANEAE; ARANEOMORPHAE; GASTERACANTHA CANCRIFORMIS; MYGALOMORPHAE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXOCRINE GLANDS; SPIDERS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 79959634465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021634     Document Type: Article

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