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Transcriptome analysis of the venom gland of the scorpion Scorpiops jendeki: implication for the evolution of the scorpion venom arsenal

Yibao Ma* email, Ruiming Zhao* email, Yawen He email, Songryong Li email, Jun Liu email, Yingliang Wu email, Zhijian Cao email and Wenxin Li email

State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, PR China

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Genomics 2009, 10:290doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-290

Published: 1 July 2009

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Atypical venom molecules characterized from the scorpion Scorpiops jendeki. The data represents eight novel types of venom peptides encoded by medium-abundant clusters from the scorpion Scorpiops jendeki.

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