The common house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum, maintains silk gene expression on sub-optimal diet
Jeremy A. Miller, Jannelle Vienneau-Hathaway, Enkhbileg Dendev, Merrina Lan, Nadia A. Ayoub
The study examines how diet affects silk gene expression in house spiders, finding that low-energy diets reduce minor ampullate spidroin transcripts but not dragline or major ampullate spidroins.
PLoS ONE · Dec 9, 2020Peer-reviewedGenetics