Diversity and evolution of conotoxins based on gene expression profiling of Conus litteratus

Genomics

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 809-819

  Pi, Canhui ^a   Liu, Junliang ^a   Peng, Can ^a   Liu, Yun ^a   Jiang, Xiuhua ^a   Zhao, Yu ^a   Tang, Shaojun ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Dong, Meiling ^a   Chen, Shangwu ^a   Xu, Anlong ^a  

^a The Open Laboratory for Marine Functional Genomics of State High Tech Development Program   (China)

Author keywords

Cone snail; Conotoxin; Diversity; Evolution; Exon shuffling; Expressed sequence tag

Indexed keywords

CONOTOXIN; SNAIL VENOM;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONUS LITTERATUS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GASTROPOD; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; SNAIL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONOTOXINS; CONUS SNAIL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CONUS LITTERATUS; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33751118759     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2006.06.014     Document Type: Article

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