Taxonomy of Australian Funnel-web spiders using rp-HPLC/ESI-MS profiling techniques

Toxicon

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 614-627

  Wilson, David ^a   Alewood, Paul F ^b  

^a Xenome Ltd   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

ACTX; electrospray mass spectrometry; Funnel web spider; Hadronyche; peptide; spider venom; toxin

Indexed keywords

VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HADRONYCHE INFENSA; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; DIPLURIDAE; HADRONYCHE; HADRONYCHE INFENSA;

EID: 33646128943     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2006.01.014     Document Type: Article

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