Moving pieces in a taxonomic puzzle: Venom 2D-LC/MS and data clustering analyses to infer phylogenetic relationships in some scorpions from the Buthidae family (Scorpiones)

Toxicon

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 628-639

  Nascimento, Danielle G ^a   Rates, Breno ^a   Santos, Daniel M ^a   Verano Braga, Thiago ^a   Barbosa Silva, Adriano ^b   Dutra, Alexandre A A ^c   Biondi, Ilka ^d   Martin Eauclaire, Marie France ^e   Lima, Maria Elena De ^a   Pimenta, Adriano M C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^d DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

2D LC MS; Buthidae phylogeny; Data clustering analyses; Leiurus quinquestriatus; Tityus bahiensis; Tityus serrulatus; Tityus stigmurus; Venom proteomics

Indexed keywords

VENOM; INSECT PROTEIN; SCORPION VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; LEIURUS QUINQUESTRIATUS QUINQUESTRIATUS; LEIURUS QUINTESTRIATUS HEBRAEUS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SCORPION; TAXONOMY; TITYUS BAHIENSIS; TITYUS STIGMURUS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY;

BUTHIDAE; GALLIRALLUS AUSTRALIS; LEIURUS QUINQUESTRIATUS; LEIURUS QUINQUESTRIATUS HEBRAEUS; LEIURUS QUINQUESTRIATUS QUINQUESTRIATUS; SCORPIONES; TITYUS; TITYUS BAHIENSIS; TITYUS SERRULATUS; TITYUS STIGMURUS;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOMICS; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 33745484721     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2006.01.015     Document Type: Article

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