Monkeying around with venom: an increased resistance to α-neurotoxins supports an evolutionary arms race between Afro-Asian primates and sympatric cobras

BACKGROUND: Snakes and primates have a multi-layered coevolutionary history as predators, prey, and competitors with each other. Previous work has explored the Snake Detection Theory (SDT), which focuses on the role of snakes as predators of primates and argues that snakes have exerted a selection p...

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Autores principales: Harris, Richard J., Nekaris, K. Anne-Isola, Fry, Bryan G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8613972/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34823526
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01195-x

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8613972/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34823526
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01195-x

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