We sequenced the transcriptomes of six species of Hawaiian Tetragnatha spiders in order to examine the genetic basis of web loss. Three of these species (T. brevignatha, T. quasimodo, and T. waikamoi)
The aggregate gland glue coating the prey-capture threads of orb web and cobweb weaving spiders is encoded by member of the spidroin silk gene family. In order to advance current knowledge of aggregat
Average pairwise sequence similarity among all repetitive introns that belong to a homology group for each gene. For genes with alternating introns the pairwise sequence similarity is calculated separ