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Consuming viscous prey: a novel protein-secreting delivery system in neotropical snail-eating snakes

BACKGROUND: Efficient venom delivery systems are known to occur only in varanoid lizards and advanced colubroidean snakes among squamate reptiles. Although components of these venomous systems might have been present in a common ancestor, the two lineages independently evolved strikingly different v...

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Autores principales: Zaher, Hussam, de Oliveira, Leonardo, Grazziotin, Felipe G, Campagner, Michelle, Jared, Carlos, Antoniazzi, Marta M, Prudente, Ana L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4021269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24661572
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-14-58