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Snake venoms are integrated systems, but abundant venom proteins evolve more rapidly

BACKGROUND: While many studies have shown that extracellular proteins evolve rapidly, how selection acts on them remains poorly understood. We used snake venoms to understand the interaction between ecology, expression level, and evolutionary rate in secreted protein systems. Venomous snakes employ...

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Autores principales: Aird, Steven D., Aggarwal, Shikha, Villar-Briones, Alejandro, Tin, Mandy Man-Ying, Terada, Kouki, Mikheyev, Alexander S.
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/PMC4552096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26315097
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-015-1832-6