How the Cobra Got Its Flesh-Eating Venom: Cytotoxicity as a Defensive Innovation and Its Co-Evolution with Hooding, Aposematic Marking, and Spitting

The cytotoxicity of the venom of 25 species of Old World elapid snake was tested and compared with the morphological and behavioural adaptations of hooding and spitting. We determined that, contrary to previous assumptions, the venoms of spitting species are not consistently more cytotoxic than thos...

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Autores principales: Panagides, Nadya, Jackson, Timothy N.W., Ikonomopoulou, Maria P., Arbuckle, Kevin, Pretzler, Rudolf, Yang, Daryl C., Ali, Syed A., Koludarov, Ivan, Dobson, James, Sanker, Brittany, Asselin, Angelique, Santana, Renan C., Hendrikx, Iwan, van der Ploeg, Harold, Tai-A-Pin, Jeremie, van den Bergh, Romilly, Kerkkamp, Harald M.I., Vonk, Freek J., Naude, Arno, Strydom, Morné A., Jacobsz, Louis, Dunstan, Nathan, Jaeger, Marc, Hodgson, Wayne C., Miles, John, Fry, Bryan G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5371858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28335411
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins9030103

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