The structural and functional diversification of the Toxicofera reptile venom system

Toxicon

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 434-448

  Fry, Bryan G ^a   Casewell, Nicholas R ^b   Wüster, Wolfgang ^c   Vidal, Nicolas ^d   Young, Bruce ^e   Jackson, Timothy N W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Gland; Molecular; Phylogeny; Protein; Reptile; Venom

Indexed keywords

AMINOPEPTIDASE; CROTAMINE; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE IV; EPIDIDYMAL SECRETORY PROTEIN; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; REPTILE VENOM; SAURIAN VENOM; SNAKE VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; ENVENOMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; LIZARD; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; POISONOUS ANIMAL; PREDATION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SNAKEBITE; TOOTH; TOXICOFERA; TOXIN STRUCTURE; VARANUS KOMODOENSIS; VENOM GLAND;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXOCRINE GLANDS; LIZARDS; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES; REPTILIAN PROTEINS; SNAKES; VENOMS;

REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; VARANUS KOMODOENSIS;

EID: 84863779090     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: 18793150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2012.02.013     Document Type: Article

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