Complex gene expression in the dragline silk producing glands of the Western black widow (Latrodectus hesperus)

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lane, Amanda K ^a   Hayashi, Cheryl Y ^b   Whitworth, Gregg B ^a   Ayoub, Nadia A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative polyadenylation; Major ampullate glands; MaSp1; Spider; Spidroin; Tag profiling

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; SILK;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEPHALOTHORAX; DNA LIBRARY; FIBER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LATRODECTUS HESPERUS; MAJOR AMPULLATE SILK GLAND; MASP1 GENE; MASP2 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; POLYADENYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECRETION; REFERENCE DATABASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; TUSP1 GENE;

ARANEAE; LATRODECTUS; LATRODECTUS HESPERUS;

ANIMALS; BLACK WIDOW SPIDER; FIBROINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84888620561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-846     Document Type: Article

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