Assembling an arsenal, the scorpion way

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Kozminsky Atias, Adi ^a   Bar Shalom, Adi ^a   Mishmar, Dan ^a   Zilberberg, Noam ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCORPION VENOM; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SCORPION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 61849180255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-333     Document Type: Article

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