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What is resilin?

What is resilin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) An elastic protein found in the exoskeletons of insects, facilitating, for example, folding wings or jumping relatively great distances.
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Resilin is a member of a family of elastic proteins that includes elastin, as well as gluten, gliadin, abductin and spider silks.
Yellow jacket wings have a dot of rubbery material called resilin toward the wing tip along the leading edge.
A team of scientists have copied resilin, the elastic protein that facilitates flight and jumping in insects.

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