Multi-tissue transcriptomics of the black widow spider reveals expansions, co-options, and functional processes of the silk gland gene toolkit

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Clarke, Thomas H ^a   Garb, Jessica E ^b   Hayashi, Cheryl Y ^c   Haney, Robert A ^b   Lancaster, Alexander K ^d,e   Corbett, Susan ^b   Ayoub, Nadia A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

de novo assembly; Gene family; Latrodectus hesperus; Molecular evolution; Spidroin

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD PROTEIN; GLUE PROTEIN; SILK; SILK FIBROIN; SPIDROIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL GENETICS; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LATRODECTUS HESPERUS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REFERENCE DATABASE; SILK GLAND; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; LATRODECTUS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

ANIMALS; BLACK WIDOW SPIDER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, INSECT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SILK; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84902215637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-365     Document Type: Article

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