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The venomous cocktail of the vampire snail Colubraria reticulata (Mollusca, Gastropoda)

BACKGROUND: Hematophagy arose independently multiple times during metazoan evolution, with several lineages of vampire animals particularly diversified in invertebrates. However, the biochemistry of hematophagy has been studied in a few species of direct medical interest and is still underdeveloped...

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Autores principales: Modica, Maria Vittoria, Lombardo, Fabrizio, Franchini, Paolo, Oliverio, Marco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4460706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26054852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-015-1648-4