Day: March 7, 2024

Spider Silk and Arachnid Genomes

Sarah Stellwagen from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2019 on arachnids! The title of the session is “Advances in arachnid genomics using Oxford Nanopore’s MinION.” They study spider silk genetics and also harvestmen. Stellwagen explained that there are several different types of silk to make egg sacs, joints, […]
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