Snake-venom resistance as a mammalian trophic adaptation: Lessons from didelphid marsupials

Biological Reviews

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 822-837

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

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b Evolution and Behavior ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arms race; Didelphidae; Elapidae; Erinaceidae; Herpestidae; Mustelidae; Serpentes; Viperidae

Indexed keywords

PLASMA PROTEIN; SNAKE VENOM;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; METABOLISM; OPOSSUM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BLOOD PROTEINS; OPOSSUMS; PROTEIN BINDING; SNAKE VENOMS;

CARNIVORA; DIDELPHIDAE; ELAPIDAE; ERINACEIDAE; HERPESTIDAE; MAMMALIA; MEPHITIDAE; METATHERIA; MUSTELIDAE; SERPENTES; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 84867198100     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00222.x     Document Type: Article

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