AMAZING Silk Gene Diversity in the Golden Orb-weaver Spider Genome

Paul L. Babb, PhD, Dept. of Genetics and Dept. of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania
The scientific paper in which some of the work described in this talk is here (www.nature.com....
Babb, Paul L, Nicholas F Lahens, Sandra M Correa-Garhwal, David N Nicholson, Eun Ji Kim, John B Hogenesch, Matjaz Kuntner, et al. 2017. “The Nephila Clavipes Genome Highlights the Diversity of Spider Silk Genes and Their Complex Expression.” Nat Genet 49 (6): 895-903.
Produced for the "Discovering the Genome" curriculum (discoveringtheg...) by the High School Genomics Project at the University of Pennsylvania. This video is part of an online genomics curriculum for use in science classrooms. This project was generously funded by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations (www.avdf.org/).

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Amazing I'm from Miami FL and their use to be alot of them down but because of all this building their very few but they are my favorite spider from the day I first encountered them