Tough tendons. Mussel byssus has collagen with silk-like domains.

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Published in J Biol Chem on December 19, 1997

Authors

X X Qin1, K J Coyne, J H Waite

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1: College of Marine Studies and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.

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