Geographic variation in venom allelic composition and diets of the widespread predatory marine gastropod Conus ebraeus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Duda Jr , Thomas F ^a,b   Chang, Dan ^a   Lewis, Brittany D ^a   Lee, Taehwan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONOTOXIN; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLLUSC VENOM; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONUS EBRAEUS; CONUS SNAIL; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FOOD COMPOSITION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); GUAM; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYCHAETA; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; TOXIC SNAIL; UNITED STATES; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DIET; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CONUS EBRAEUS; EUNICIDA; GASTROPODA; NEREIDA; POLYCHAETA;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONUS SNAIL; DIET; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLUSK VENOMS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 67650921409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006245     Document Type: Article

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