Mining on scorpion venom biodiversity

Toxicon

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1155-1161

  Rodríguez de la Vega, Ricardo C ^a   Schwartz, Elisabeth F ^b   Possani, Lourival D ^c  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cytolytic peptides; Enzyme; Proteome; Scorpion; Toxin; Transcriptome; Venom

Indexed keywords

SCORPION VENOM; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANDROCTONUS CRASSICAUDA; ANDROCTONUS MAURETANICUS; BIODIVERSITY; CLONING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROMETRUS LONGIMANUS; LEIURUS QUINQUIESTRATUS; LIOCHELES AUSTRALASIAE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPISTHACANTHUS CAYAPORUM; ORTHOCHIRUS INNESI; PARABUTHUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SCORPIO MAURUS; SCORPION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TITYUS BAHIENSIS; TITYUS CAMBRIDGEI; TITYUS COSTATUS; TITYUS PACHYURUS; TITYUS SERRULATUS; TITYUS STIGMURUS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEINS; PROTEOME; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

SCORPIONES;

EID: 77954706736     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2009.11.010     Document Type: Review

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