Novel transcripts in the maxillary venom glands of advanced snakes

Toxicon

Volumn 59, Issue 7-8, 2012, Pages 696-708

  Fry, Bryan G ^a   Scheib, Holger ^a   Junqueira de Azevedo, Inacio de L M ^b   Silva, Debora Andrade ^b   Casewell, Nicholas R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Phylogeny; Protein; Toxin; Venom

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ISOPROTEIN; LIPOCALIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2 GROUP IB; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2 GROUP II; RIBONUCLEASE; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; SNAKE VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITELLINE MEMBRANE OUTER LAYER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVENOMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIZARD; MAXILLARY VENOM GLAND; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE LIBRARY; LIPOCALINS; LIZARDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOLIPASES A2; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEASES; SALIVARY GLANDS; SNAKE VENOMS; SNAKES; TRANSCRIPTOME;

REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84859172535     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: 18793150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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