High-Toughness Silk Produced by a Transgenic Silkworm Expressing Spider (Araneus ventricosus) Dragline Silk Protein

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Yoshihiko Kuwana,

Affiliation Silk Materials Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Hideki Sezutsu,

Affiliation Transgenic Silkworm Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Ken-ichi Nakajima,

Affiliation Transgenic Silkworm Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Yasushi Tamada,

Affiliations Silk Materials Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Ueda, Nagano, Japan
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Katsura Kojima

* E-mail: kojikei@affrc.go.jp

Affiliation Silk Materials Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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