The venom-gland transcriptome of the eastern coral snake (Micrurus fulvius) reveals high venom complexity in the intragenomic evolution of venoms

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Margres, Mark J ^a   Aronow, Karalyn ^a   Loyacano, Jacob ^a   Rokyta, Darin R ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALLOPROTEINASE; NEUROTOXIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SNAKE VENOM; THREE FINGER TOXIN; TOXIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3FTX GENE; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELAPIDAE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; KUN GENE; LCN GENE; MICRURUS FULVIUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLA2 GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SVMP GENE; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANIMALS; ELAPID VENOMS; ELAPIDAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOMICS; HETEROZYGOTE; METALLOPROTEASES; NEUROTOXINS; PHOSPHOLIPASES A2; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ELAPIDAE; MICRURUS; MICRURUS FULVIUS;

EID: 84880901893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-531     Document Type: Article

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