ArticleG3 (Bethesda, Md.)2019
Toward Spider Glue: Long Read Scaffolding for Extreme Length and Repetitious Silk Family Genes AgSp1 and AgSp2 with Insights into Functional Adaptation.
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- The evolutionary history of cribellate orb-weaver capture thread spidroins.BMC ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Chromosome-level genome assembly of the black widow spider Latrodectus elegans illuminates composition and evolution of venom and silk proteins.GigaScience · 2022Article
- Recombinant Spider Silk: Promises and Bottlenecks.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Review
- (Un)expected Similarity of the Temporary Adhesive Systems of Marine, Brackish, and Freshwater Flatworms.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Protein Composition and Associated Material Properties of Cobweb Spiders' Gumfoot Glue Droplets.Integrative and comparative biology · 2021Article
- Critical role of minor eggcase silk component in promoting spidroin chain alignment and strong fiber formation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Shifts in morphology, gene expression, and selection underlie web loss in Hawaiian Tetragnatha spiders.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Chromosome-level reference genome of the European wasp spider Argiope bruennichi: a resource for studies on range expansion and evolutionary adaptation.GigaScience · 2021Article
- Spidroin profiling of cribellate spiders provides insight into the evolution of spider prey capture strategies.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Structural Diversity of Native Major Ampullate, Minor Ampullate, Cylindriform, and Flagelliform Silk Proteins in Solution.Biomacromolecules · 2020Article
- The common house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum, maintains silk gene expression on sub-optimal diet.PloS one · 2020Article
- Properties of orb weaving spider glycoprotein glue change during Argiope trifasciata web construction.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
An individual orb weaving spider can spin up to seven different types of silk, each with unique functions and material properties. The capture spiral silk of classic two-dimensional aerial orb webs is coated with an amorphous glue that functions to retain prey that get caught in a web. This unique modified silk is partially comprised of spidroins (spider fibroins) encoded by two members of the silk gene family. The glue differs from solid silk fibers as it is a viscoelastic, amorphic, wet material that is responsive to environmental conditions. Most spidroins are encoded by extremely large, highly repetitive genes that cannot be sequenced using short read technology alone, as the repetitive regions are longer than read length. We sequenced for the first time the complete genomic Aggregate Spidroin 1 (AgSp1) and Aggregate Spidroin 2 (AgSp2) glue genes of orb weaving spider
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