Ecological venomics: How genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics can shed new light on the ecology and evolution of venom

K Sunagar, D Morgenstern, AM Reitzel, Y Moran - Journal of Proteomics, 2016 - Elsevier
Animal venom is a complex cocktail of bioactive chemicals that traditionally drew interest
mostly from biochemists and pharmacologists. However, in recent years the evolutionary …

Venom resistance as a model for understanding the molecular basis of complex coevolutionary adaptations

ML Holding, DH Drabeck, SA Jansa… - Integrative and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Venom and venom resistance are molecular phenotypes widely considered to have
diversified through coevolution between predators and prey. However, while evolutionary …

[图书][B] Handbook of venoms and toxins of reptiles

SP Mackessy - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
The Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles offers" one-stop shopping" to all biologists,
biochemists, toxicologists, physicians, clinicians, and epidemiologists, and informed …

Sex-based individual variation of snake venom proteome among eighteen Bothrops jararaca siblings

MC Menezes, MF Furtado, SR Travaglia-Cardoso… - Toxicon, 2006 - Elsevier
Variation of venom proteome is relevant to basic research, to management of envenoming,
and to studies on the evolution of poisonous snakes. In this study, we explored the venom …

Intraspecific venom variation in the medically significant Southern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus helleri): biodiscovery, clinical and evolutionary implications

K Sunagar, EAB Undheim, H Scheib, ECK Gren… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Due to the extreme variation of venom, which consequently results in drastically variable
degrees of neutralization by CroFab antivenom, the management and treatment of …

Snakes on a plain: biotic and abiotic factors determine venom compositional variation in a wide-ranging generalist rattlesnake

CF Smith, ZL Nikolakis, K Ivey, BW Perry, DR Schield… - BMC biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Snake venoms are trophic adaptations that represent an ideal model to
examine the evolutionary factors that shape polymorphic traits under strong natural …

A multifaceted analysis of viperid snake venoms by two‐dimensional gel electrophoresis: an approach to understanding venom proteomics

SMT Serrano, JD Shannon, D Wang… - …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The complexity of Viperid venoms has long been appreciated by investigators in the fields of
toxinology and medicine. However, it is only recently that the depth of that complexity has …

Functional proteomic analyses of Bothrops atrox venom reveals phenotypes associated with habitat variation in the Amazon

LF Sousa, JA Portes-Junior, CA Nicolau… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Venom variability is commonly reported for venomous snakes including Bothrops atrox.
Here, we compared the composition of venoms from B. atrox snakes collected at Amazonian …

The habu genome reveals accelerated evolution of venom protein genes

H Shibata, T Chijiwa, N Oda-Ueda, H Nakamura… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Evolution of novel traits is a challenging subject in biological research. Several snake
lineages developed elaborate venom systems to deliver complex protein mixtures for prey …

Venom Proteomes of Closely Related Sistrurus Rattlesnakes with Divergent Diets

L Sanz, HL Gibbs, SP Mackessy… - Journal of proteome …, 2006 - ACS Publications
The protein composition of the venoms of the three subspecies of Sistrurus catenatus (S. c.
catenatus, tergeminus, and edwardsii) and a basal species, Sistrurus miliarius b arbour i …