Adaptive evolution of the Venom-targeted vWF protein in opossums that Eat Pitvipers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Jansa, Sharon A ^a   Voss, Robert S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTROCETIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; SNAKE VENOM; VENOM; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR; VIPER VENOM;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HEMOSTASIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PHYLOGENY; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SNAKE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ANIMALIA; CROTALINAE; DIDELPHIDAE; METATHERIA; SERPENTES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BINDING SITES; CROTALID VENOMS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPOSSUMS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION, GENETIC; VIPER VENOMS; VIPERIDAE; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 79959451069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020997     Document Type: Article

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