Replies to Fry et al. (Toxicon 2012, 60/4, 434-448). Part A. Analyses of squamate reptile oral glands and their products: A call for caution in formal assignment of terminology designating biological function

Toxicon

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 954-963

  Weinstein, Scott A ^a   Keyler, Daniel E ^b   White, Julian ^a  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPHYLATOXIN; SNAKE VENOM; VENOM;

ANATOMY; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LETTER; LIZARD; MAMMAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUTH GLAND; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SYSTEMS; PAROTID GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SALIVATION; SECRETION; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES; VENOMS;

REPTILIA;

EID: 84864399924     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: 18793150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2012.05.006     Document Type: Letter

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