Novel toxin genes, biological activity of putative toxins and molecular phylogeny of Conus furvus Reeve, 1843

The genus Conus comprises a remarkable group of predatory marine gastropods characterized by a special biochemistry of small constrained peptides, the conotoxins. These conotoxins have an extremely high affinity to a particular ion channel in the snail's prey. In this research, conotoxins from...

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Main Author: Espino, Samuel S.
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2006.
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