Will current technologies enable dinosaur proteomics?

Expert Review of Proteomics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 695-699

  Smejkal, Gary B ^a,b   Schweitzer, Mary H ^a,c,d  

^a Pressure BioSciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; GLYCOPROTEIN;

ALLOSTERISM; BONE DEMINERALIZATION; DINOSAUR; EDITORIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS; FOSSIL; GENOME; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MINERALOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TECHNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; BONE AND BONES; COLLAGEN; DINOSAURS; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; PROTEOMICS;

DINOSAURIA;

EID: 37149011235     PISSN: 14789450     EISSN: 17448387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14789450.4.6.695     Document Type: Editorial

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