Putting the brakes on snake venom evolution: The unique molecular evolutionary patterns of Aipysurus eydouxii (marbled sea snake) phospholipase A 2 toxins

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 934-941

  Li, Min ^a   Fry, Bryan G ^b,c   Kini, R Manjunatha ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution of toxins; Gene duplication; Phospholipase A 2; Sea snake; Venom gland

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NEUROTOXIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SNAKE VENOM;

AIPYSURUS EYDOUXII; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENVENOMATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FEEDING; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SNAKE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TOXIN ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HYDROPHID VENOMS; HYDROPHIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 16344384549     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi077     Document Type: Article

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