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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |