Molecular evolution of vertebrate neurotrophins: Co-option of the highly conserved nerve growth factor gene into the advanced snake venom arsenalf

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Sunagar, Kartik ^a,b   Fry, Bryan Grieg ^c   Jackson, Timothy N W ^c   Casewell, Nicholas R ^d,e   Undheim, Eivind A B ^c   Vidal, Nicolas ^f   Ali, Syed A ^c,g   King, Glenn F ^c   Vasudevan, Karthikeyan ^h   Vasconcelos, Vitor ^a,b   Antunes, Agostinho ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

^h Wildlife Institute of India   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN; NEUROTROPHIN 3; SNAKE VENOM;

ANGUIMORPHA; ARTICLE; BDNF GENE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; BOIDAE; CROCODILE; DIVERSIFYING SELECTION; ELAPIDAE; ENVENOMATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IGUANIA; INFLAMMATION; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; NGF GENE; NONHUMAN; NT 3 GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCINCIFORMATA; TURTLE; TYPHLOPOIDEA; VERTEBRATE; VIPERIDAE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; ELAPIDAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; PHYLOGENY; SNAKE VENOMS;

EID: 84895917491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081827     Document Type: Article

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