Chromosome-level genome assembly of the black widow spider Latrodectus elegans illuminates composition and evolution of venom and silk proteins

Wang, ZK; Zhu, KS; Li, HR; Gao, L; Huang, HY; Ren, YD; Xiang, H

Xiang, H (通讯作者),South China Normal Univ, Inst Insect Sci & Technol, Guangdong Prov Key Lab Insect Dev Biol & Appl Tec, Sch Life Sci, Guangzhou 510631, Peoples R China.;Ren, YD (通讯作者),Northwestern Polytech Univ, Sch Ecol & Environm, Xian 710072, Peoples R China.

GIGASCIENCE, 2022; 11 ():

Abstract

Background The black widow spider has both extraordinarily neurotoxic venom and three-dimensional cobwebs composed of diverse types of silk. However, ......

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