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Figure 6

From: Extraordinary Mechanical Properties of Composite Silk Through Hereditable Transgenic Silkworm Expressing Recombinant Major Ampullate Spidroin

Figure 6

Correlation analysis between the length of re-MaSp1 and mechanical properties of the silk fibres. The correlation analysis between mechanical properties, including maximum stress, maximum strain, Young’s modulus and toughness, and the number of the amino acids (aa) of re-MaSp1, respectively, are shown in (a–d). (a–d) The correlation analysis between mechanical properties and the length of re-MaSp1in heterozygous G4; (a’–d’) the correlation analysis between mechanical properties and the length of re-MaSp1 in homozygous G5; (a”–d”) the correlation analysis between mechanical properties and the length of re-MaSp1with similar protein levels in homozygous G5. Each dot represents the mean value of the fifteen pieces of silk fibres from each transgenic lineage. Note: Dots with different colours or sizes are used to distinguish close values for different transgenic lineages.

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