Molecular systematics of the neotropical scorpion genus Tityus (Buthidae): The historical biogeography and venom antigenic diversity of toxic Venezuelan species

Toxicon

Volumn 55, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 436-454

  Borges, Adolfo ^a   Bermingham, Eldredge ^b   Herrera, Nimiadina ^b   Alfonzo, Marcelo J ^a   Sanjur, Oris I ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA 16S; SCORPION VENOM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BRAZIL; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANAMA; POISONOUS SCORPION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; VENEZUELA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS; ANTIVENINS; CROSS REACTIONS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VENEZUELA;

BUTHIDAE; CARINAE; EQUIDAE; SCORPIONES; TITYUS; TITYUS BAHIENSIS; TITYUS CLATHRATUS; TITYUS DISCREPANS; TITYUS NORORIENTALIS; TITYUS PERIJANENSIS; TITYUS SERRULATUS; TITYUS ZULIANUS;

EID: 73049094382     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2009.09.011     Document Type: Article

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