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Hadrurid Scorpion Toxins: Evolutionary Conservation and Selective Pressures
Scorpion toxins are thought to have originated from ancestral housekeeping genes that underwent diversification and neofunctionalization, as a result of positive selection. Our understanding of the evolutionary origin of these peptides is hindered by the patchiness of existing taxonomic sampling. Wh...
Autores principales: | Santibáñez-López, Carlos E., Graham, Matthew R., Sharma, Prashant P., Ortiz, Ernesto, Possani, Lourival D. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6891616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31683932 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins11110637 |
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