Novel Animal Defenses against Predation: A Snail Egg Neurotoxin Combining Lectin and Pore-Forming Chains That Resembles Plant Defense and Bacteria Attack Toxins

Although most eggs are intensely predated, the aerial egg clutches from the aquatic snail Pomacea canaliculata have only one reported predator due to unparalleled biochemical defenses. These include two storage-proteins: ovorubin that provides a conspicuous (presumably warning) coloration and has an...

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Autores principales: Dreon, Marcos Sebastián, Frassa, María Victoria, Ceolín, Marcelo, Ituarte, Santiago, Qiu, Jian-Wen, Sun, Jin, Fernández, Patricia E., Heras, Horacio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3667788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23737950
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063782

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3667788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23737950
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063782

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