Global transcriptome analysis of the scorpion Centruroides noxius: New toxin families and evolutionary insights from an ancestral scorpion species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Rendón Anaya, Martha ^a,b   Delaye, Luis ^a   Possani, Lourival D ^b   Herrera Estrella, Alfredo ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MICRORNA; PROTEASOME; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SCORPION VENOM; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CENTRUROIDES NOXIUS; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENOMICS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PYROSEQUENCING; RNA EXTRACTION; SCORPION; SEA ANEMONE; SPIDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEXICO; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84865082108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043331     Document Type: Article

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