Defense role of the cocoon in the silk worm Bombyx mori L.

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 3203-3206

  Pandiarajan, Jeyaraj ^a   Cathrin, Britto P ^a   Pratheep, Thangaraj ^a   Krishnan, Muthukalingan ^a  

^a BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIOLOGY; DESORPTION; ELECTROPHORESIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ANTIMICROBIAL PROTEINS; BOMBYX MORI; DISC DIFFUSION METHODS; FOREIGN BODY RESPONSE; HIGH QUALITY; PRIME-FOCUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SILK PROTEINS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTS;

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EID: 80054987362     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.5213     Document Type: Article

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