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Metabarcoding: opportunities for accelerating monitoring and understanding insect tropical biodiversity
Despite occupying only a small portion of the Earth’s surface, tropical rainforests are some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. Given the hyperdiversity of tropical rainforests, these ecosystems are...
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Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in the Wastewater and Rivers of Tapachula, a Migratory Hub in Southern Mexico
The COVID-19 pandemic has been monitored by applying different strategies, including SARS-CoV-2 detection with clinical testing or through wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE). We used the latter approach to fo...
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Antimicrobial, Insecticides, Analgesics, and Hyaluronidases from the Venom Glands of Brachypelma Spiders
Mexico is a rich country in biological diversity; among them, the mygalomorph (also called the orthognatha) spider species of the genus Brachypelma contain in their poisonous glands a great variety of biomolecule...
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Spider Transcriptomes from Venom Glands: Molecular Diversity of Ion Channel Toxins and Antimicrobial Peptide Transcripts
The technological transformations that expand our knowledge of molecular biology in the 1980s brought us various novel techniques and methods for gene isolation and characterization. Research groups from all o...
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Antimicrobial, Insecticides, Analgesics, and Hyaluronidases from the Venom Glands of Brachypelma Spiders
Mexico is a rich country in biological diversity; among them, the mygalomorph (also called the orthognatha) spider species of the genus Brachypelma contain in their poisonous glands a great variety of biomolecule...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Spider Transcriptomes from Venom Glands: Molecular Diversity of Ion Channel Toxins and Antimicrobial Peptide Transcripts
The technological transformations that expand our knowledge of molecular biology in the 1980s brought us various novel techniques and methods for gene isolation and characterization. Research groups from all o...
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Open AccessThe Mediterranean scorpion Mesobuthus gibbosus (Scorpiones, Buthidae): transcriptome analysis and organization of the genome encoding chlorotoxin-like peptides
Transcrof toxin genes of scorpion species have been published. Up to this moment, no information on the gene characterization of M. gibbosus is available.
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Venom components from Citharischius crawshayi spider (Family Theraphosidae): exploring transcriptome, venomics, and function
Despite strong efforts, knowledge about the composition of the venom of many spider species remains very limited. This work is the first report of transcriptome and venom analysis of the African spider Citharisch...
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Modulation of Ammonium Assimilation in Transgenic Legumes During the Symbiosis with Rhizobium