Diversification of neurotoxins by C‐tail ‘wiggling’: a scorpion recipe for survival

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  2001

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  The FASEB Journal

• Publication date

  2001-05-01

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  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1096/fj.00-0571hypPMID 11344088
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