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SUBMITTER: Olivera BM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3488454 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20120901
An impressive biodiversity (>10,000 species) of marine snails (suborder Toxoglossa or superfamily Conoidea) have complex venoms, each containing approximately 100 biologically active, disulfide-rich peptides. In the genus Conus, the most intensively investigated toxoglossan lineage (∼500 species), a small set of venom gene superfamilies undergo rapid sequence hyperdiversification within their mature toxin regions. Each major lineage of Toxoglossa has its own distinct set of venom gene superfamil ...[more]