Differentiation of venoms of predatory marine gastropods: Divergence of orthologous toxin genes of closely related conus species with different dietary specializations

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 315-321

  Duda, Thomas F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Conus; Four loop conotoxins; Gene family; Species interactions; Venom

Indexed keywords

CONOTOXIN; VENOM;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONUS SNAIL; GASTROPOD; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MARINE SPECIES; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PREDATOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONOTOXINS; DIET; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GASTROPODA; GENETIC VARIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

CONUS ABBREVIATUS; CONUS MILIARIS; GASTROPODA;

EID: 51749083941     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-008-9155-8     Document Type: Article

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