ToxCodAn-Genome: an automated pipeline for toxin-gene annotation in genome assembly of venomous lineages

PG Nachtigall, AM Durham, DR Rokyta… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background The rapid development of sequencing technologies resulted in a wide
expansion of genomics studies using venomous lineages. This facilitated research focusing …

[PDF][PDF] Comparative Venom Multiomics Reveal the Molecular Mechanisms Driving Adaptation to Diverse Predator–Prey Ecosystems in Closely Related Sea Snakes

H Zheng, J Wang, H Fan, S Wang, R Ye… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Predator–prey arms races are ideal models for studying the natural selection and adaptive
evolution that drive the formation of biological diversity. For venomous snakes, venom is a …

The genome of the ant Tetramorium bicarinatum reveals a tandem organization of venom peptides genes allowing the prediction of their regulatory and evolutionary …

A Touchard, V Barassé, JM Malgouyre, M Treilhou… - BMC genomics, 2024 - Springer
Background Venoms have evolved independently over a hundred times in the animal
kingdom to deter predators and/or subdue prey. Venoms are cocktails of various secreted …

Single-cell heterogeneity in snake venom expression is hardwired by co-option of regulators from progressively activated pathways

AK Westfall, SS Gopalan, BW Perry… - Genome Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The ubiquitous cellular heterogeneity underlying many organism-level phenotypes raises
questions about what factors drive this heterogeneity and how these complex …

Comparative analysis of PacBio and ONT RNA sequencing methods for Nemopilema Nomurai venom identification

Y Ma, J Li, H Yu, L Teng, H Geng, R Li, R Xing, S Liu… - Genomics, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent studies on marine organisms have made use of third-generation sequencing
technologies such as Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) and Oxford Nanopore Technologies …

Stress Response Pathways and the Origins of Novelty: How Snakes Regenerate Organs and Regulate Venom

AK Westfall - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Snakes have captured evolutionary biologists' attention for decades as extreme examples of
adaptive evolution models for studying how novel and extreme traits evolve in nature, but …