Rapid molecular diversification and homogenization of clustered major ampullate silk genes in Argiope garden spiders

• Richard H. Baker ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rbaker@amnh.org

  Affiliation Division of Invertebrate Zoology and Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0598-4235

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• André Corvelo,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation New York Genome Center, New York, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0989-7806

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• Cheryl Y. Hayashi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Invertebrate Zoology and Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

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