Toxicity in animals. Trends in evolution?

Toxicon

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 87-96

  Mebs, Dietrich ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Secondary metabolites; Selection pressure; Toxin biosynthesis; Toxin diversity; Toxin evolution

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CONOTOXIN SI; ALPHA CONOTOXIN SIA; ALPHA CONOTOXIN SII; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CONOPRESSIN; GLYCOSIDE; OMEGA CONOTOXIN SVIA; OMEGA CONOTOXIN SVIB; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TOXICOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; SNAIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXICITY; TOXIN STRUCTURE; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GASTROPODA; SIA;

EID: 0035239228     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(00)00155-0     Document Type: Short Survey

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