Recruitment of toxin-like proteins with ancestral venom function supports endoparasitic lifestyles of Myxozoa

Cnidarians are the oldest lineage of venomous animals and use nematocysts to discharge toxins. Whether venom toxins have been recruited to support parasitic lifestyles in the Endocnidozoa (Myxozoa + Polypodium) is, however, unknown. To examine this issue we variously employed transcriptomic, proteom...

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Autores principales: Hartigan, Ashlie, Jaimes-Becerra, Adrian, Okamura, Beth, Doonan, Liam B., Ward, Malcolm, Marques, Antonio C., Long, Paul F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2021
Materias:
Environmental Sciences
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8083181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33981497
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11208

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8083181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33981497
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11208

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