Electrophoretic profiles and biological activities: Intraspecific variation in the venom of the Malayan pit viper (Calloselasma rhodostoma)

Toxicon

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-79

  Daltry, Jennifer C ^a   Ponnudurai, Gnanajothy ^b   Shin, Chai Koh ^c   Tan, Nget Hong ^b   Thorpe, Roger S ^a   Wüster, Wolfgang ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c ZOO Negara Malaysia   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5' NUCLEOTIDASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMINO ACID OXIDASE; ARGININE ESTERASE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; SNAKE VENOM; VIPER VENOM;

ARTICLE; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

CALLOSELASMA RHODOSTOMA; CROTALINAE; SERPENTES; VIPER;

EID: 0030034086     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0041-0101(95)00122-0     Document Type: Article

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