Hematophagous triatomine bugs feed also on plants and express functional amylase

JL Da Lage, A Fontenelle, J Filée, M Merle… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
BACKGROUND Blood feeding is a secondary adaptation in hematophagous bugs that
ancestrally feed on plants. Many vector proteins are devoted to cope with the host's …

[PDF][PDF] Therapeutic Potential of Venom Peptides

F Caliskan, G Corzo - Recent Advances in Molecular Biology and …, 2023 - researchgate.net
The biochemical composition of animal venoms (scorpions, snakes, spiders, cone snails,
etc.) is diverse and contains short and large proteins with neurotoxic and enzymatic …