Adaptive evolution of the venom-targeted vWF protein in opossums that eat pitvipers.

The rapid evolution of venom toxin genes is often explained as the result of a biochemical arms race between venomous animals and their prey. However, it is not clear that an arms race analogy is appropriate in this context because there is no published evidence for rapid evolution in genes that mig...

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Auteurs principaux: Sharon A Jansa, Robert S Voss
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Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
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