The genomic origins and evolutionary path to a key innovation in the world's most venomous snakes.

Abstract excerpt

Evolutionary innovation is a catalyst for the colonization of new environments and the adaptive radiations of major groups. Novel traits typically evolve through the modification of preexisting characters, but the genetic paths underlying their origin have been challenging to trace, and the general requirements for and relative order of different kinds of gene mutations have been difficult to assess. Here, we...

Topics

• Animals
• Evolution, Molecular
• Venomous Snakes
• Phylogeny
• Snake Venoms
• Genome