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Intragenome Diversity of Gene Families Encoding Toxin-like Proteins in Venomous Animals.
Integrative and comparative biology - 1 Nov 2016
Rodríguez de la Vega Ricardo C, Giraud Tatiana
Abstract excerpt
The evolution of venoms is the story of how toxins arise and of the processes that generate and maintain their diversity. For animal venoms these processes include recruitment for expression in the venom gland, neofunctionalization, paralogous expansions, and functional divergence. The systematic study of these processes requires the reliable identification of the venom components involved in antagonistic...
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