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Shaohan Niu

South China Normal University

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New insights into the evolution of spider silk proteins illuminated by long-read transcriptomes

Kesen Zhu, Shiyi Zhou, Mo Lyu, Jiahao Xiang, Shaohan Niu, Yongping Huang, Lei Gao, Anjiang Tan, Hui Xiang

This study uses long-read transcriptomes to identify ancestral spider silk proteins and their evolutionary trajectories, revealing how they diversified into modern silk types.

bioRxiv · Feb 5, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology