High-resolution picture of a venom gland transcriptome: Case study with the marine snail Conus consors

Toxicon

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-46

  Terrat, Yves ^a   Biass, Daniel ^c   Dutertre, Sébastien ^c   Favreau, Philippe ^c   Remm, Maido ^d   Stöcklin, Reto ^d   Piquemal, David ^b   Ducancel, Frédéric ^a  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b Skuldtech   (France)

^c ATHERIS LABORATORIES   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Cone snail; Conopeptide; Conus consors; Pyrosequencing; Toxin; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

CONOPEPTIDE; CYSTEINE; DNA; ISOPROTEIN; PEPTIDE; SNAIL VENOM; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONUS CONSORS; CONUS SNAIL; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMOLYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PYROSEQUENCING; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TOXIC SNAIL; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSPOSON; VENOM DUCT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONOTOXINS; CONUS SNAIL; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLLUSK VENOMS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CONUS CONSORS; GASTROPODA; PUFFINUS AURICULARIS;

EID: 81155148629     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: 18793150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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