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SUBMITTER: Sutherland TD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1626643 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sutherland Tara D TD Campbell Peter M PM Weisman Sarah S Trueman Holly E HE Sriskantha Alagacone A Wanjura Wolfgang J WJ Haritos Victoria S VS
Genome research 20061025 11
The pupal cocoon of the domesticated silk moth Bombyx mori is the best known and most extensively studied insect silk. It is not widely known that Apis mellifera larvae also produce silk. We have used a combination of genomic and proteomic techniques to identify four honey bee fiber genes (AmelFibroin1-4) and two silk-associated genes (AmelSA1 and 2). The four fiber genes are small, comprise a single exon each, and are clustered on a short genomic region where the open reading frames are GC-rich ...[more]