Scorpions are one of the most ancient groups of terrestrial animals. They have maintained a steady morphology over more than 400 million years of evolution. Their venom arsenals for capturing prey and defending against predators may play a critical role in their ancient and conservative appearance. In the current review, we present the scorpion fauna of China: 53 species covering five families ...

Although bacterial toxins are a major cause of some diseases, the successful prediction of bacterial toxins directly from primary sequence is much benefited to further basic knowledge of cell biology or for medical research and application. In this paper, by using the concept of Chou’s pseudo amino acid composition, a new method was proposed to predict bacterial toxins by IB1 algorithm. The jac...

Toxins are ubiquitous in nature and as such they impact our daily life. Toxins may come from a wide variety of sources and influence a myriad of biological functions. Research on toxins may address their production, structure, chemical properties, biological activity, and economic impact. On the one hand, toxins may be used to decipher biological mechanisms, to favourably influence disease or t...