Speciation of cone snails and interspecific hyperdivergence of their venom peptides. Potential evolutionary significance of introns

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 870, Issue , 1999, Pages 223-237

  Olivera, Baldomero M ^a   Walker, Craig ^a   Cartier, G Edward ^a   Hooper, David ^a   Santos, Ameurfina D ^a   Schoenfeld, Robert ^a,b   Shetty, Reshma ^a   Watkins, Maren ^b   Bandyopadhyay, Pradip ^a   Hillyard, David R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; SNAIL VENOM;

CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; SNAIL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 0032795276     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08883.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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