Evolution of separate predation- and defence-evoked venoms in carnivorous cone snails

Venomous animals are thought to inject the same combination of toxins for both predation and defence, presumably exploiting conserved target pharmacology across prey and predators. Remarkably, cone snails can rapidly switch between distinct venoms in response to predatory or defensive stimuli. Here,...

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Autores principales: Dutertre, Sébastien, Jin, Ai-Hua, Vetter, Irina, Hamilton, Brett, Sunagar, Kartik, Lavergne, Vincent, Dutertre, Valentin, Fry, Bryan G., Antunes, Agostinho, Venter, Deon J., Alewood, Paul F., Lewis, Richard J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Pub. Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3973120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24662800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4521

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3973120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24662800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4521

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