Divergence in toxin antigenicity and venom enzymes in Tityus melici, a medically important scorpion, despite transcriptomic and phylogenetic affinities with …

Y Kalapothakis, K Miranda, M Aragão… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Brazilian scorpion Tityus melici, native to Minas Gerais and Bahia, is
morphologically related to Tityus serrulatus, the most medically significant species in Brazil …

Selection Across the Three-Dimensional Structure of Venom Proteins from North American Scolopendromorph Centipedes

SA Ellsworth, RM Rautsaw, MJ Ward… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Gene duplication followed by nucleotide differentiation is one of the simplest mechanisms to
develop new functions for genes. However, the evolutionary processes underlying the …