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Allelic resolution of insect and spider silk genes reveals hidden genetic diversity.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2 May 2023
Frandsen Paul B, Hotaling Scott, Powell Ashlyn, Heckenhauer Jacqueline, Kawahara Akito Y, Baker Richard H, Hayashi Cheryl Y, Ríos-Touma Blanca, Holzenthal Ralph, Pauls Steffen U, Stewart Russell J
Abstract excerpt
Arthropod silk is vital to the evolutionary success of hundreds of thousands of species. The primary proteins in silks are often encoded by long, repetitive gene sequences. Until recently, sequencing and assembling these complex gene sequences has proven intractable given their repetitive structure. Here, using high-quality long-read sequencing, we show that there is extensive variation-both in terms of length...
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