There is increasing recognition of the public health importance of snakebite envenoming.
Worldwide annual incidence is likely to be 5 million bites, with mortality exceeding 150 000 …

Snake venoms are heterogeneous mixtures of proteins and peptides used for prey
subjugation. With modern proteomics there has been a rapid expansion in our knowledge of …

Animal venom systems have emerged as valuable models for investigating how novel
polygenic phenotypes may arise from gene evolution by varying molecular mechanisms …

Developmental phenotypic changes can evolve under selection imposed by age-and size-
related ecological differences. Many of these changes occur through programmed …

Simple Summary As a group of organisms, non-avian reptiles, most of which are the~
11,000 species of lizards and snakes, are an extraordinarily diverse group, displaying a …

Crotamine, myotoxin a and homologs are short peptides that often comprise major fractions
of rattlesnake venoms and have been extensively studied for their bioactive properties …

With the recent availability of tissue-specific gene expression data, eg, provided by the GTEx
Consortium, there is interest in comparing gene co-expression patterns across tissues. One …

Background The rapid development of sequencing technologies resulted in a wide
expansion of genomics studies using venomous lineages. This facilitated research focusing …

The ubiquitous cellular heterogeneity underlying many organism-level phenotypes raises
questions about what factors drive this heterogeneity and how these complex …

Predatory bugs employ a salivary venom apparatus to generate complex venoms for
capturing and digesting prey. The venom apparatus consists of different glands for the …