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Diversity and evolution of conotoxins based on gene expression profiling of Conus litteratus.
Genomics - 1 Dec 2006
Pi Canhui, Liu Junliang, Peng Can, Liu Yun, Jiang Xiuhua, Zhao Yu, Tang Shaojun, Wang Lei, Dong Meiling, Chen Shangwu, Xu Anlong
Abstract excerpt
Cone snails are attracting increasing scientific attention due to their unprecedented diversity of invaluable channel-targeted peptides. As arguably the largest and most successful evolutionary genus of invertebrates, Conus also may become the model system to study the evolution of multigene families and biodiversity. Here, a set of 897 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) derived from a Conus litteratus venom duct was...
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