The repeats from a single locus share evolutionary history and are easy to align, except for S.m. Sp2c that consists of two sets of repeats (grey and blue) with different evolutionary histories. S.m. PiSp consists of sequences obtained from two scaffolds. PCR verified that they come from...
We thank Lena Grinsted for the drawings of spider silk (Fig. 4d). Author information Author notes Kristian W. Sanggaard, Jesper S. Bechsgaard and Xiaodong Fang: These authors contributed equally to this work Authors and Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University,...
the manuscript. We thank Tania A. Nielsen for assisting during DNA and RNA purification and LC-MS/MS sample preparation, and Sanne E. Lauridsen and Line R. Thomsen for collecting tarantula venom and tarantula tissue samples. We thank Lena Grinsted for the drawings of spider silk (Fig. 4d)....