Snake venomics and antivenomics of Bothrops atrox venoms from Colombia and the Amazon regions of Brazil, Perú and Ecuador suggest the occurrence of geographic variation of venom phenotype by a trend towards paedomorphism

Journal of Proteomics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-78

  Núñez, Vitelbina ^a   Cid, Pedro ^b   Sanz, Libia ^b   De La Torre, Pilar ^b   Angulo, Yamileth ^c   Lomonte, Bruno ^c   Gutiérrez, José María ^c   Calvete, Juan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Antivenomics; Bothrops atrox; Common lancehead; Geographic venom phenotype variation; Mass spectrometry; N terminal sequencing; Paedomorphism; Snake venomics; Venom proteome; Viperid toxins

Indexed keywords

BATROXOBIN; PROTEOME; SNAKE VENOM;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ECUADOR; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); NONHUMAN; PERU; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; BOTHROPS; BRAZIL; COLOMBIA; COSTA RICA; CROSS REACTIONS; CROTALID VENOMS; ECUADOR; GEOGRAPHY; PERU; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOME; SNAKES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BOTHROPS ASPER; BOTHROPS ATROX; CROTALUS; LACHESIS STENOPHRYS; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 70350044715     PISSN: 18743919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2009.07.013     Document Type: Article

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