Characterization of the <it>Conus bullatus </it>genome and its venom-duct transcriptome

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The venomous marine gastropods, cone snails (genus <it>Conus</it>), inject prey with a lethal cocktail of conopeptides, small cysteine-rich peptides, each with a high affinity for its molecular target, generally an ion ch...

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Main Authors: Olivera Baldomero M, Bandyopadhyay Pradip K, Hu Hao, Yandell Mark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-01-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/12/60