Coiling and maturation of a high-performance fibre in hagfish slime gland thread cells.

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Published in Nat Commun on April 04, 2014

Authors

Timothy Winegard¹, Julia Herr¹, Carlos Mena², Betty Lee², Ivo Dinov³, Deborah Bird⁴, Mark Bernards¹, Sam Hobel², Blaire Van Valkenburgh⁴, Arthur Toga², Douglas Fudge¹

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, NIG-2W1, Canada.
2: 1] Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI), Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics (INI), Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California 90095, USA [2] Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
3: 1] Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI), Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics (INI), Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California 90095, USA [2] Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA [3] University of Michigan, UMSN 4311, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5482, USA.
4: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1606, USA.

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