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Mechanisms for evolving hypervariability: the case of conopeptides.

Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Feb 2001

Conticello S G, Gilad Y, Avidan N, Ben-Asher E, Levy Z, Fainzilber M

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Hypervariability is a prominent feature of large gene families that mediate interactions between organisms, such as venom-derived toxins or immunoglobulins. In order to study mechanisms for evolution of hypervariability, we examined an EST-generated assemblage of 170 distinct conopeptide sequences from the venoms of five species of marine Conus snails. These sequences were assigned to eight gene families, defined...

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PMID: 11158371
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003786

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