Background Venoms are deadly weapons to subdue prey or deter predators that have
evolved independently in many animal lineages. The genomes of venomous animals are …

To expand our capacity to discover venom sequences from the genomes of venomous
organisms, we applied targeted sequencing techniques to selectively recover venom gene …

Background The venomous marine gastropods, cone snails (genus Conus), inject prey with
a lethal cocktail of conopeptides, small cysteine-rich peptides, each with a high affinity for its …

Venoms evolved convergently in diverse animal lineages as key adaptations that increase
the evolutionary fitness of species which are manifold employed for defense, predation, and …

The genus Conus comprises approximately 700 species of venomous marine cone snails
that are highly efficient predators of worms, snails, and fish. In evolutionary terms, cone …

Predatory gastropods of the superfamily Conoidea number over 12,000 living species. The
evolutionary success of this lineage can be explained by the ability of conoideans to …

Cone snails are attracting increasing scientific attention due to their unprecedented diversity
of invaluable channel-targeted peptides. As arguably the largest and most successful …

Venom peptides from predatory organisms are a resource for investigating evolutionary
processes such as adaptive radiation or diversification, and exemplify promising targets for …

The marine cone snail Conus gloriamaris is an iconic species. For over two centuries, its
shell was one of the most prized and valuable natural history objects in the world. Today …

Snake venom has been hypothesized to have originated and diversified through a process
that involves duplication of genes encoding body proteins with subsequent recruitment of …