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Tracing Monotreme Venom Evolution in the Genomics Era

The monotremes (platypuses and echidnas) represent one of only four extant venomous mammalian lineages. Until recently, monotreme venom was poorly understood. However, the availability of the platypus genome and increasingly sophisticated genomic tools has allowed us to characterize platypus toxins,...

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Autores principales: Whittington, Camilla M., Belov, Katherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4014732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24699339
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins6041260