Snake venomics and antivenomics: Proteomic tools in the design and control of antivenoms for the treatment of snakebite envenoming

JM Gutiérrez, B Lomonte, G León, A Alape-Giron… - Journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
Snakebite envenoming represents a neglected tropical disease that has a heavy public
health impact, particularly in Asia, Africa and Latin America. A global initiative, aimed at …

Diversification in vipers: Phylogenetic relationships, time of divergence and shifts in speciation rates

LRV Alencar, TB Quental, FG Grazziotin… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2016 - Elsevier
Snakes of the cosmopolitan family Viperidae comprise around 329 venomous species
showing a striking heterogeneity in species richness among lineages. While the subfamily …

[HTML][HTML] Snake venom vascular endothelial growth factors (svVEGFs): Unravelling their molecular structure, functions, and research potential

IG Ferreira, MB Pucca, IS de Oliveira, FA Cerni… - Cytokine & Growth …, 2021 - Elsevier
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a key regulator of angiogenesis, a
physiological process characterized by the formation of new vessels from a preexisting …

[图书][B] Handbook of venoms and toxins of reptiles

SP Mackessy - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
The Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles offers" one-stop shopping" to all biologists,
biochemists, toxicologists, physicians, clinicians, and epidemiologists, and informed …

Bulk de novo mitogenome assembly from pooled total DNA elucidates the phylogeny of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)

CPDT Gillett, A Crampton-Platt… - Molecular biology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Complete mitochondrial genomes have been shown to be reliable markers for phylogeny
reconstruction among diverse animal groups. However, the relative difficulty and high cost …

Family-level sampling of mitochondrial genomes in Coleoptera: compositional heterogeneity and phylogenetics

MJTN Timmermans, C Barton, J Haran… - Genome Biology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Mitochondrial genomes are readily sequenced with recent technology and thus evolutionary
lineages can be densely sampled. This permits better phylogenetic estimates and …

A nesting of vipers: phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Viperidae (Squamata: Serpentes)

W Wüster, L Peppin, CE Pook, DE Walker - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2008 - Elsevier
Despite their medical interest, the phylogeny of the snake family Viperidae remains
inadequately understood. Previous studies have generally focused either on the pitvipers …

Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of hummingbirds: Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses of partitioned data and selection of an appropriate …

JA McGuire, CC Witt, DL Altshuler… - Systematic …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Hummingbirds are an important model system in avian biology, but to date the group has
been the subject of remarkably few phylogenetic investigations. Here we present partitioned …

Domain loss facilitates accelerated evolution and neofunctionalization of duplicate snake venom metalloproteinase toxin genes

NR Casewell, SC Wagstaff, RA Harrison… - Molecular biology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Gene duplication is a key mechanism for the adaptive evolution and neofunctionalization of
gene families. Large multigene families often exhibit complex evolutionary histories as a …

Morphological and molecular evidence for phylogeny and classification of South American pitvipers, genera Bothrops, Bothriopsis, and Bothrocophias (Serpentes …

AM Fenwick, RL Gutberlet, JA Evans… - Zoological Journal of …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Abstract species in the genus Bothrops sl are extraordinarily variable in ecology and
geography, compared with other genera in the subfamily Crotalinae. In contrast to the trend …