Complex cocktails: The evolutionary novelty of venoms

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 219-229

  Casewell, Nicholas R ^a,b   Wüster, Wolfgang ^a   Vonk, Freek J ^c   Harrison, Robert A ^b   Fry, Bryan G ^d  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antivenom; Convergence; Drug discovery; Evolution; Gene duplication; Selection; Venom

Indexed keywords

VENOM;

ANIMAL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DATA ACQUISITION; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; VENOM;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PREDATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOOD CHAIN; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VENOMS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84875511146     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2012.10.020     Document Type: Review

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