Regional divergence of phospholipase A2-like protein cDNAs between New Guinean and Australian Pseudechis australis

Toxicon

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 637-639

  Inagaki, Hidetoshi ^a   Yamauchi, Yoko ^a   Toriba, Michihisa ^b   Kubo, Tai ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b Japan Snake Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

New Guinean; Papuan pigmy mulga snake

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SNAKE VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POISONOUS SNAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDECHIS AUSTRALIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

NOTECHIS SCUTATUS SCUTATUS; PSEUDECHIS AUSTRALIS; SPILOTES PULLATUS PULLATUS;

EID: 77954959276     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2010.04.018     Document Type: Article

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