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Venom Insulins of Cone Snails Diversify Rapidly and Track Prey Taxa
A specialized insulin was recently found in the venom of a fish-hunting cone snail, Conus geographus. Here we show that many worm-hunting and snail-hunting cones also express venom insulins, and that this novel gene family has diversified explosively. Cone snails express a highly conserved insulin i...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5062327/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27524826 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msw174 |