Fig 1.
The golden orb-weaving spiders and a representative MA gland.
(A) Nephila plumipes (photo by Alessandra Whaite) and Nephila pilipes (photo by Amos T Fairchild). (B) The major ampullate gland of Nephila pilipes, indicating the secretory section and the sac that stores silk proteins.
Table 1.
Total spidroins in each Nephila plumipes data set (2013 and 2016).
Table 2.
Total spidroins in each Nephila pilipes data set (2013 and 2016).
Fig 2.
SDS-PAGE and Coomassie stain indicating prominent protein bands that were excised for LC-MS/MS analysis.
(A-F) Nephila plumipes, (G-K) Nephila pilipes. MWM, molecular weight marker.
Table 3.
Nephila plumipes proteins within the silk matching to the transcriptome.
Table 4.
Nephila pilipes proteins within the silk matching to the transcriptome.
Table 5.
Nephila plumipes silk gland most abundantly expressed genes.
Table 6.
Nephila pilipes silk gland most abundantly expressed genes.