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Adaptive Evolution of the Venom-Targeted vWF Protein in Opossums that Eat Pitvipers

The rapid evolution of venom toxin genes is often explained as the result of a biochemical arms race between venomous animals and their prey. However, it is not clear that an arms race analogy is appropriate in this context because there is no published evidence for rapid evolution in genes that mig...

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Autores principales: Jansa, Sharon A., Voss, Robert S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3120824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21731638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020997