Quo Vadis venomics? A roadmap to neglected venomous invertebrates

Toxins

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3488-3551

  von Reumont, Bjoern Marcus ^a   Campbell, Lahcen I ^a   Jenner, Ronald A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acanthaster; Asilidae; Chilopoda; Glyceridae; Nemertea; Pseudoscorpiones; Remipedia; Sciomyzidae; Tabanidae; Venoms

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; VENOM;

ANNELID; ARACHNID; ARGULOIDA; ARTHROPOD; CENTIPEDE; CLITELLATA; COPEPOD; CRUSTACEA; ECHINODERM; EISENIA (ANNELID); INVERTEBRATE; ISOPODA; LEECH; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; MOLLUSC; NEMERTEA; NONHUMAN; PLATYHELMINTH; REVIEW; SHRIMP; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SCORPION; SPIDER;

ACANTHASTER; ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; ARACHNIDA; ARANEAE; ASILIDAE; CHILOPODA; CRUSTACEA; ECHINODERMATA; GLYCERIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; NEMERTEA; PLATYHELMINTHES; PSEUDOSCORPIONES; REMIPEDIA; SCIOMYZIDAE; SCORPIONES; TABANIDAE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INVERTEBRATES; PHYLOGENY; SCORPIONS; SPIDERS; VENOMS;

EID: 84919786913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins6123488     Document Type: Review

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