Profiling the resting venom gland of the scorpion Tityus stigmurus through a transcriptomic survey

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Almeida, Diego D ^a   Scortecci, Katia C ^a   Kobashi, Leonardo S ^b   Agnez Lima, Lucymara F ^a   Medeiros, Silvia R B ^a   Silva Junior, Arnóbio A ^a   Junqueira de Azevedo, Inácio D L M ^b   Fernandes Pedrosa, Matheus D F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRADYKININ; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LECTIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SCORPION VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SCORPION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEINS; LECTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; PEPTIDES; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BUTHIDAE; SCORPIONES; TITYUS STIGMURUS;

EID: 84864400949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-362     Document Type: Article

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