Whole genome duplication and gene evolution in the hyperdiverse venomous gastropods

S Farhat, MV Modica, N Puillandre - Molecular Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The diversity of venomous organisms and the toxins they produce have been increasingly
investigated, but taxonomic bias remains important. Neogastropods, a group of marine …

[HTML][HTML] Marine invertebrates' proteins: A recent update on functional property

AR Ganesan, MSG Mohanram… - Journal of King Saud …, 2020 - Elsevier
The marine invertebrates are vast species in the animal kingdom which consists abundant
source of novel functional biopolymers like proteins, lipid and polysaccharides that possess …

The evolution of sanguivory in vampire bats: origins and convergences

DK Riskin, GG Carter - Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Blood-feeding (sanguivory) has evolved more than two dozen times among birds, fishes,
insects, arachnids, molluscs, crustaceans, and annelids; however, among mammals, it is …

Neogastropod (Mollusca, Gastropoda) phylogeny: a step forward with mitogenomes

T Lemarcis, AE Fedosov, YI Kantor… - Zoologica …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Neogastropoda (Mollusca, Gastropoda) encompass more than 15,000
described species of marine predators, including several model organisms in toxinology …

A Recurrent Motif: Diversity and Evolution of ShKT Domain Containing Proteins in the Vampire Snail Cumia reticulata

M Gerdol, M Cervelli, P Mariottini, M Oliverio, S Dutertre… - Toxins, 2019 - mdpi.com
Proteins of the ShK superfamily are characterized by a small conserved domain (ShKT), first
discovered in small venom peptides produced by sea anemones, and acting as specific …