Transcriptome analysis of Deinagkistrodon acutus venomous gland focusing on cellular structure and functional aspects using expressed sequence tags

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Bing ^a,b   Liu, Qinghua ^c   Yin, Wei ^c   Zhang, Xiaowei ^b   Huang, Yijun ^c   Luo, Yingfeng ^a,b   Qiu, Pengxin ^c   Su, Xingwen ^c   Yu, Jun ^a,b   Hu, Songnian ^a,b   Yan, Guangmei ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CREATINE KINASE; ISOMERASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SNAKE VENOM; STROMELYSIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CROTALID VENOMS; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIPERIDAE;

COLUBROIDEA; DEINAGKISTRODON ACUTUS; MAMMALIA; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 33746620560     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-152     Document Type: Article

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