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Deciphering the venomic transcriptome of killer-wasp Vespa velutina.
Scientific reports - 23 Apr 2015
Liu Zhirui, Chen Shuanggang, Zhou You, Xie Cuihong, Zhu Bifeng, Zhu Huming, Liu Shupeng, Wang Wei, Chen Hongzhuan, Ji Yonghua
Abstract excerpt
Wasp stings have been arising to be a severe public health problem in China in recent years. However, molecular information about lethal or toxic factors in wasp venom is extremely lacking. In this study, we used two pyrosequencing platforms to analyze the transcriptome of Vespa velutina, the most common wasp species native in China. Besides the substantial amount of transcripts encoding for allergens usually...
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