Evidence for diet effects on the composition of silk proteins produced by spiders.

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Published in Mol Biol Evol on December 01, 2000

Authors

C L Craig1, C Riekel, M E Herberstein, R S Weber, D Kaplan, N E Pierce

Author Affiliations

1: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. ccraig@oeb.harvard.edu

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