Early evolution of the venom system in lizards and snakes

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7076, 2006, Pages 584-588

  Fry, Bryan G ^a,b   Vidal, Nicolas ^c,d   Norman, Janette A ^b   Vonk, Freek J ^e   Scheib, Holger ^f,g   Ramjan, S F Ryan ^a   Kuruppu, Sanjaya ^h   Fung, Kim ⁱ   Hedges, S Blair ^c   Richardson, Michael K ^e   Hodgson, Wayne C ^h   Ignjatovic, Vera ^a,j   Summerhayes, Robyn ^a,j   Kochva, Elazar ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^g SBC Lab AG   (Switzerland)

^h MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ CSIRO   (Australia)

^j ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^k TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DRUG PRODUCTS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

ANGUIMORPHS; BLOOD PRESSURE; TOXINOLOGICAL ANALYSES; VENOM SYSTEMS;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

VENOM;

EVOLUTION; POISONING; REPTILE;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; DNA LIBRARY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIZARD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; REPTILE; SNAKE; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND;

ANGUIMORPHA; HELODERMA SP.; HELODERMA SUSPECTUM; HELODERMATIDAE; IGUANIA; POGONA BARBATA; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; VARANUS; VARANUS VARIUS;

EID: 31844435709     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04328     Document Type: Article

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