Integrated "omics" profiling indicates that miRNAs are modulators of the ontogenetic venom composition shift in the Central American rattlesnake, Crotalus simus simus

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Durban, Jordi ^a   Pérez, Alicia ^a   Sanz, Libia ^a   Gómez, Aarón ^b   Bonilla, Fabián ^b   Rodríguez, Santos ^b   Chacón, Danilo ^b   Sasa, Mahmood ^b   Angulo, Yamileth ^b   Gutiérrez, José M ^b   Calvete, Juan J ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

454 pyrosequencing; Crotalus simus simus; Ion Torrent microRNA profiling; Ontogenetic venom shift; Snake venom gland transcriptomics; Venomics

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SERINE PROTEINASE; SNAKE VENOM;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROTALUS; CROTALUS SIMUS SIMUS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GROUPS BY AGE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CROTALID VENOMS; CROTALUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICRORNAS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEOMICS; RETROELEMENTS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CROTALUS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 84875934123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-234     Document Type: Article

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