Intragenic homogenization and multiple copies of prey-wrapping silk genes in Argiope garden spiders

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Chaw, R Crystal ^a   Zhao, Yonghui ^a   Wei, Jie ^a,b   Ayoub, Nadia A ^a,c   Allen, Ryan ^a   Atrushi, Kirmanj ^a   Hayashi, Cheryl Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LIAONING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AcSp1; Concerted evolution; Intragenic homogenization; Multiple loci; Silk; Spider; Spidroin

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMOGENEITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; ARGIOPE; ARGIOPE ARGENTATA; ARGIOPE AURANTIA; ARGIOPE TRIFASCIATA;

FIBROIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CODON; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPIDER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIBROINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPIDERS;

EID: 84897602963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-31     Document Type: Article

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