Full-Length Minor Ampullate Spidroin Gene Sequence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Gefei ^a   Liu, Xiangqin ^b   Zhang, Yunlong ^a   Lin, Senzhu ^a   Yang, Zijiang ^a   Johansson, Jan ^c,d,e   Rising, Anna ^c,d   Meng, Qing ^a  

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINOR AMPULLATE SPIDROIN; SCLEROPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARANEUS VENTRICOSUS; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; MISP GENE; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SPIDER; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FIBROINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPIDERS;

ARANEAE; ARANEUS VENTRICOSUS;

EID: 84871258178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052293     Document Type: Article

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