Venom Down Under: Dynamic Evolution of Australian Elapid Snake Toxins

Venom Down Under: Dynamic Evolution of Australian Elapid Snake Toxins

Despite the unparalleled diversity of venomous snakes in Australia, research has concentrated on a handful of medically significant species and even of these very few toxins have been fully sequenced. In this study, venom gland transcriptomes were sequenced from eleven species of small Australian el...

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Main Authors: Timothy N. W. Jackson, Kartik Sunagar, Eivind A. B. Undheim, Ivan Koludarov, Angelo H. C. Chan, Kate Sanders, Syed A. Ali, Iwan Hendrikx, Nathan Dunstan, Bryan G. Fry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-12-01
Series:Toxins
Subjects:
venom
evolution
phylogeny
elapid
Australia
molecular evolution
Darwinian selection
toxin phylogenies
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/5/12/2621

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