diverse uses of silk, with varying strength, adhesive qualities, and elastic properties. Silk
fibroin genes are long (> 20 Kbp), with many repetitive motifs that make them challenging to
sequence. Most research thus far has focused on conserved N-and C-terminal regions of
fibroin genes because a full comparison of repetitive regions across taxa has not been
possible. Using the PacBio Sequel II system and SMRT sequencing, we generated high …