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Inter-specific sequence conservation and intra-individual sequence variation in a spider silk gene.
International journal of biological macromolecules - 1 Oct 2004
Tai Pei-Ling, Hwang Guang-Yuh, Tso I-Min
Abstract excerpt
Currently, studies on major ampullate spidroin 1 (MaSp1) genes of non-orb weaving spiders are few, and it is not clear whether genes of these organisms exhibit the same characteristics as those of orb-weavers. In addition, many studies have proposed that MaSp1 might be a single gene with allelic variants, but supporting evidence is still lacking. In this study, we compared partial DNA and amino acid sequences of...
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