The Fast and the Furriest: Investigating the Rate of Selection on Mammalian Toxins

The evolution of venom and the selection pressures that act on toxins have been increasingly researched within toxinology in the last two decades, in part due to the exceptionally high rates of diversifying selection observed in animal toxins. In 2015, Sungar and Moran proposed the ‘two-speed’ model...

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Main Authors: Leah Lucy Joscelyne Fitzpatrick, Vincent Nijman, Rodrigo Ligabue-Braun, K. Anne-Isola Nekaris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-12-01
Series:Toxins
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/14/12/842