Mass spectrometry imaging reveals new biological roles for choline esters and Tyrian purple precursors in muricid molluscs

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Rudd, David ^a   Ronci, Maurizio ^b,c   Johnston, Martin R ^d   Guinan, Taryn ^b   Voelcker, Nicolas H ^b   Benkendorff, Kirsten ^e  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^d Institute for NanoScale Science and Technology   (Australia)

^e SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6,6'-DIBROMOINDIGO; CHOLINE; ESTER; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; MUREXINE; NANOMATERIAL; SILICON;

ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GASTROPOD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; POROSITY; REPRODUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; CHOLINE; ESTERS; FEMALE; GASTROPODA; INDOLES; LARVA; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; POROSITY; REPRODUCTION; SILICON; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84940826058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep13408     Document Type: Article

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