Blue mussels tethered
Through strong stretchy tiny threads
Now your secret’s told
Kathy Coyne
University of Delaware
I sequenced the gene for one of the proteins used to make byssal threads by Mytilus edulis (the blue mussel) and showed a gradient of expression along the mussel foot. The threads encode a copolymer protein composed of elastin- and collagen-like sequences.
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Brilliant! This should be published. Admittedly I am a biased fellow biologist.
By: Lnoronha on August 30, 2009
at 12:53 pm