Expression pattern of three-finger toxin and phospholipase A2 genes in the venom glands of two sea snakes, Lapemis curtus and Acalyptophis peronii: Comparison of evolution of these toxins in land snakes, sea kraits and sea snakes

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Pahari, Susanta ^a,d   Bickford, David ^a   Fry, Bryan G ^a,b   Kini, R Manjunatha ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JAIN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SNAKE VENOM; ACALYPTOPHIS NEUROTOXIN; ISOPROTEIN; REPTILIAN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DIET; DNA LIBRARY; ECOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HABITAT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SNAKE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACALYPTOPHIS PERONI; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ARTHROPODA; AVES; HEXAPODA; HYDROPHIIDAE; LAPEMIS; LATICAUDA; MAMMALIA; PISCES; REPTILIA; RODENTIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BUNGARUS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELAPID VENOMS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; HYDROPHID VENOMS; HYDROPHIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOLIPASES A2; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REPTILIAN PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37849046437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-175     Document Type: Article

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