UMBC’s Sarah Stellwagen first in world to sequence genes for spider glue
Sequencing spider glue genes is like, "picking a needle from a haystack,” says UMBC postdoc Sarah Stellwagen. She is the lead author of a new G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics article on sequencing two spider glue genes for the first time. They're massive — the largest has a coding sequence over 42,000 bases long.