Three polymorphic genes encoding a depressant toxin from the Egyptian scorpion Leiurus quinquestriatus quinquestriatus

Toxicon

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 109-113

  Zaki, Tamer I ^a,b   Maruniak, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Gene polymorphism; RT PCR; Scorpion; Toxin

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN LQQIT2; SCORPION VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGYPT; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCORPION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS;

INSECTA; LEIURUS; LEIURUS QUINQUESTRIATUS QUINQUESTRIATUS; SCORPIONES;

EID: 0037213114     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(02)00242-8     Document Type: Article

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