High Conopeptide Diversity in Conus tribblei Revealed Through Analysis of Venom Duct Transcriptome Using Two High-Throughput Sequencing Platforms

Systematic interrogation of the Conus marmoreus venom duct transcriptome with ConoSorter reveals 158 novel conotoxins and 13 new gene superfamilies

(2013) Vincent Lavergne et al.   BMC GENOMICS

A novel arrangement of Cys residues in a paralytic peptide of Conus cancellatus (jr. syn.: Conus austini), a worm-hunting snail from the Gulf of Mexico

(2013) Manuel B. Aguilar et al.   PEPTIDES

Biodiversity of Cone Snails and Other Venomous Marine Gastropods: Evolutionary Success Through Neuropharmacology

(2013) Baldomero M. Olivera et al.   Annual Review of Animal Biosciences

Oases: robust de novo RNA-seq assembly across the dynamic range of expression levels

(2012) Marcel H. Schulz et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Elucidation of the molecular envenomation strategy of the cone snail Conus geographus through transcriptome sequencing of its venom duct

(2012) Hao Hu et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Modulation of Conotoxin Structure and Function Is Achieved through a Multienzyme Complex in the Venom Glands of Cone Snails

(2012) Helena Safavi-Hemami et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Molecular Phylogeny, Classification and Evolution of Conopeptides

(2012) N. Puillandre et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Novel venom peptides from the cone snail Conus pulicarius discovered through next-generation sequencing of its venom duct transcriptome

(2012) Arturo O. Lluisma et al.   Marine Genomics

Deep Venomics Reveals the Mechanism for Expanded Peptide Diversity in Cone Snail Venom

(2012) Sébastien Dutertre et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

The oyster genome reveals stress adaptation and complexity of shell formation

(2012) Guofan Zhang et al.   NATURE

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

Characterization of the Conus bullatus genome and its venom-duct transcriptome

(2011) Hao Hu et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Embryonic Toxin Expression in the Cone SnailConus victoriae

(2011) Helena Safavi-Hemami et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

SignalP 4.0: discriminating signal peptides from transmembrane regions

(2011) Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.   NATURE METHODS

ConoServer: updated content, knowledge, and discovery tools in the conopeptide database

(2011) Q. Kaas et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

High-resolution picture of a venom gland transcriptome: Case study with the marine snail Conus consors

(2011) Yves Terrat et al.   TOXICON

Evolution of Conus peptide toxins: Analysis of Conus californicus Reeve, 1844

(2010) Jason S. Biggs et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

De novo assembly and analysis of RNA-seq data

(2010) Gordon Robertson et al.   NATURE METHODS

Dramatic intraspecimen variations within the injected venom of Conus consors: An unsuspected contribution to venom diversity

(2010) Sébastien Dutertre et al.   TOXICON

Conopeptide characterization and classifications: An analysis using ConoServer

(2010) Quentin Kaas et al.   TOXICON

Diversity of conotoxin types from Conus californicus reflects a diversity of prey types and a novel evolutionary history

(2010) C.A. Elliger et al.   TOXICON

The M-superfamily of conotoxins: a review

(2009) Reed B. Jacob et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

A Novel Conus Snail Polypeptide Causes Excitotoxicity by Blocking Desensitization of AMPA Receptors

(2009) Craig S. Walker et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Geographic Variation in Venom Allelic Composition and Diets of the Widespread Predatory Marine Gastropod Conus ebraeus

(2009) Thomas F. Duda et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of ecological specialization and venom of a predatory marine gastropod

(2008) E. A. REMIGIO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

High-throughput functional annotation and data mining with the Blast2GO suite

(2008) S. Gotz et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Identification of a novel class of conotoxins defined as V-conotoxins with a unique cysteine pattern and signal peptide sequence

(2008) Can Peng et al.   PEPTIDES

α-Conopeptides specifically expressed in the salivary gland of Conus pulicarius

(2008) Jason S. Biggs et al.   TOXICON

Purification and characterization of a novel excitatory peptide from Conus distans venom that defines a novel gene superfamily of conotoxins

(2008) Ping Chen et al.   TOXICON