Spider genomes provide insight into composition and evolution of venom and silk

Spider genomes provide insight into composition and evolution of venom and silk

Spiders are ecologically important predators with complex venom and extraordinarily tough silk that enables capture of large prey. Here we present the assembled genome of the social velvet spider and a draft assembly of the tarantula genome that represent two major taxonomic groups of spiders. The s...

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Main Authors: Sanggaard, Kristian W., Bechsgaard, Jesper S., Fang, Xiaodong, Duan, Jinjie, Dyrlund, Thomas F., Gupta, Vikas, Jiang, Xuanting, Cheng, Ling, Fan, Dingding, Feng, Yue, Han, Lijuan, Huang, Zhiyong, Wu, Zongze, Liao, Li, Settepani, Virginia, Thøgersen, Ida B., Vanthournout, Bram, Wang, Tobias, Zhu, Yabing, Funch, Peter, Enghild, Jan J., Schauser, Leif, Andersen, Stig U., Villesen, Palle, Schierup, Mikkel H, Bilde, Trine, Wang, Jun
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Pub. Group 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4273655/

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