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Gene Tree Parsimony of Multilocus Snake Venom Protein Families Reveals Species Tree Conflict as a Result of Multiple Parallel Gene Loss

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The Effect of Insertions, Deletions, and Alignment Errors on the Branch-Site Test of Positive Selection

(2010) W. Fletcher et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Extraordinary Conservation, Gene Loss, and Positive Selection in the Evolution of an Ancient Neurotoxin

(2010) Shauna A. Murray et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Alternative splicing and evolution: diversification, exon definition and function

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Novel venom gene discovery in the platypus

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The Toxicogenomic Multiverse: Convergent Recruitment of Proteins Into Animal Venoms

(2009) Bryan G. Fry et al.   Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Drugs from slugs—Past, present and future perspectives of ω-conotoxin research

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Convergent Evolution of Novel Protein Function in Shrew and Lizard Venom

(2009) Yael T. Aminetzach et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Venoms, venomics, antivenomics

(2009) Juan J. Calvete et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Adaptive evolution of young gene duplicates in mammals

(2009) M. V. Han et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Identification of natural killer cell receptor clusters in the platypus genome reveals an expansion of C-type lectin genes

(2009) Emily S. W. Wong et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

Duck-Billed Platypus Venom Peptides Induce Ca2+Influx in Neuroblastoma Cells

(2009) Masaki Kita et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Two Alternatively Spliced Isoforms of the Arabidopsis SR45 Protein Have Distinct Roles during Normal Plant Development

(2009) X.-N. Zhang et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Disulfide-Linked Protein Folding Pathways

(2008) Bharath S. Mamathambika et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

A serpin from the parasitoid wasp Leptopilina boulardi targets the Drosophila phenoloxidase cascade

(2008) Dominique Colinet et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

EnsemblCompara GeneTrees: Complete, duplication-aware phylogenetic trees in vertebrates

(2008) A. J. Vilella et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Defensins and the convergent evolution of platypus and reptile venom genes

(2008) C. M. Whittington et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Understanding and utilising mammalian venom via a platypus venom transcriptome

(2008) Camilla M. Whittington et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Evolution of Snake Venom Disintegrins by Positive Darwinian Selection

(2008) P. Juarez et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Alternative isoform regulation in human tissue transcriptomes

(2008) Eric T. Wang et al.   NATURE

Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution

(2008) Wesley C. Warren et al.   NATURE

Phylogeny-Aware Gap Placement Prevents Errors in Sequence Alignment and Evolutionary Analysis

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