Expression of Venom Gene Homologs in Diverse Python Tissues Suggests a New Model for the Evolution of Snake Venom

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 173-183

  Reyes Velasco, Jacobo ^a   Card, Daren C ^a   Andrew, Audra L ^a   Shaney, Kyle J ^a   Adams, Richard H ^a   Schield, Drew R ^a   Casewell, Nicholas R ^b   Mackessy, Stephen P ^c   Castoe, Todd A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral expression; Origin of venom; Preadaptation; Selective gene recruitment; Toxicofera

Indexed keywords

BRADYKININ; CYSTATIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROTEIN; SARAFOTOXIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; SNAKE VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEFICOLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BURMESE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; INDEL MUTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAKE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BOIDAE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; REPTILE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

SERPENTES;

ANIMALS; BOIDAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME; GENOMICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SNAKE VENOMS;

EID: 84922366053     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu294     Document Type: Article

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