Characterization of primary structure of the major silk gene, h-fibroin, across caddisfly suborders (Trichoptera)
Jacqueline Heckenhauer, Russell J. Stewart, Blanca Ríos‐Touma, Ashlyn Powell, Tshering Dorji, Paul B. Frandsen, Steffen U. Pauls
The paper characterizes the primary structure of h-fibroin across caddisfly suborders, finding conserved termini and variable repeating modules linked to silk mechanical properties.
iScience · Jul 3, 2023Peer-reviewedGenomics