How the Cobra Got Its Flesh-Eating Venom: Cytotoxicity as a Defensive Innovation and Its Co-Evolutio...
How the Cobra Got Its Flesh-Eating Venom: Cytotoxicity as a Defensive Innovation and Its Co-Evolution with Hooding, Aposematic Marking, and Spitting
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Panagides, Nadya , Jackson, Timothy N W , Ikonomopoulou, Maria P , Arbuckle, Kevin , Pretzler, Rudolf , Yang, Daryl C , Ali, Syed A , Koludarov, Ivan , Dobson, James , Sanker, Brittany , Asselin, Angelique , Santana, Renan C , Hendrikx, Iwan , van der Ploeg, Harold , Tai-A-Pin, Jeremie , van den Bergh, Romilly , Kerkkamp, Harald M I , Vonk, Freek J , Naude, Arno , Strydom, Morné A , Jacobsz, Louis , Dunstan, Nathan , Jaeger, Marc , Hodgson, Wayne C , Miles, John and Fry, Bryan G
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Switzerland: MDPI AG
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Switzerland: MDPI AG
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The cytotoxicity of the venom of 25 species of Old World elapid snake was tested and compared with the morphological and behavioural adaptations of hooding and spitting. We determined that, contrary to previous assumptions, the venoms of spitting species are not consistently more cytotoxic than those of closely related non-spitting species. While t...
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How the Cobra Got Its Flesh-Eating Venom: Cytotoxicity as a Defensive Innovation and Its Co-Evolution with Hooding, Aposematic Marking, and Spitting
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Jackson, Timothy N W
Ikonomopoulou, Maria P
Arbuckle, Kevin
Pretzler, Rudolf
Yang, Daryl C
Ali, Syed A
Koludarov, Ivan
Dobson, James
Sanker, Brittany
Asselin, Angelique
Santana, Renan C
Hendrikx, Iwan
van der Ploeg, Harold
Tai-A-Pin, Jeremie
van den Bergh, Romilly
Kerkkamp, Harald M I
Vonk, Freek J
Naude, Arno
Strydom, Morné A
Jacobsz, Louis
Dunstan, Nathan
Jaeger, Marc
Hodgson, Wayne C
Miles, John
Fry, Bryan G
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TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_1c20566acda0422496bb4f20bb55925a
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_1c20566acda0422496bb4f20bb55925a
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2072-6651
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2072-6651
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10.3390/toxins9030103
