Gene expression and feeding ecology: Evolution of piscivory in the venomous gastropod genus Conus

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1544, 2004, Pages 1165-1174

  Duda Jr , Thomas F ^a,c   Palumbi, Stephen R ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Conotoxins; Conus; Differential expression; Gene family

Indexed keywords

CONOTOXIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION; FEEDING ECOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; PISCIVORY;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEEDING; GASTROPOD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENUS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

CONUS; GASTROPODA;

EID: 2942612546     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2708     Document Type: Article

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