Novel animal defenses against predation: a snail egg neurotoxin combining lectin and pore-forming chains that resembles plant defense and bacteria attack toxins.

Although most eggs are intensely predated, the aerial egg clutches from the aquatic snail Pomacea canaliculata have only one reported predator due to unparalleled biochemical defenses. These include two storage-proteins: ovorubin that provides a conspicuous (presumably warning) coloration and has an...

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Autores principales: Marcos Sebastián Dreon, María Victoria Frassa, Marcelo Ceolín, Santiago Ituarte, Jian-Wen Qiu, Jin Sun, Patricia E Fernández, Horacio Heras
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Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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