Venom yields from Australian and some other species of snakes

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 531-538

  Mirtschin, Peter J ^a   Dunstan, Nathan ^a   Hough, Ben ^a   Hamilton, Ewan ^a   Klein, Sharna ^a   Lucas, Jonathan ^a   Millar, David ^a   Madaras, Frank ^a   Nias, Timothy ^b  

^a Venom Science Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^b Venom Science Pty Ltd ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Snake; Venom; Yield

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM; VENOM ANTISERUM;

SNAKE; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; EXTRACTION; GENUS; NAJA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDECHIS; PSEUDONAJA; SNAKE; SOLID; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; SNAKE VENOMS; SNAKES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

NAJA; PSEUDECHIS; PSEUDONAJA; SERPENTES;

EID: 33748981839     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-006-0089-x     Document Type: Article

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