Three-Fingered RAVERs: Rapid Accumulation of Variations in Exposed Residues of Snake Venom Toxins

Identification and characterization of a taxon-specific three-finger toxin from the venom of the Green Vinesnake (Oxybelis fulgidus; family Colubridae)

(2013) William H. Heyborne et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Dracula's children: Molecular evolution of vampire bat venom

(2013) Dolyce H.W. Low et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Squeezers and Leaf-cutters: Differential Diversification and Degeneration of the Venom System in Toxicoferan Reptiles

(2013) Bryan G. Fry et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

FUBAR: A Fast, Unconstrained Bayesian AppRoximation for Inferring Selection

(2013) B. Murrell et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Correction: Molecular Evolution of Vertebrate Neurotrophins: Co-Option of the Highly Conserved Nerve Growth Factor Gene into the Advanced Snake Venom Arsenalf

(2013) Kartik Sunagar et al.   PLoS One

Opossums (Mammalia: Didelphidae) in the diets of Neotropical pitvipers (Serpentes: Crotalinae): Evidence for alternative coevolutionary outcomes?

(2013) Robert S. Voss   TOXICON

Response to “Replies to Fry et al. (Toxicon 2012, 60/4, 434–448). Part B. Analyses of squamate reptile oral glands and their products: A call for caution in formal assignment of terminology designating biological function”

(2013) Timothy N.W. Jackson et al.   TOXICON

Alpha neurotoxins

(2013) Carmel M. Barber et al.   TOXICON

Atractaspis aterrima Toxins: The First Insight into the Molecular Evolution of Venom in Side-Stabbers

(2013) Yves Terrat et al.   Toxins

Structure and Dynamics of Cardiotoxins

(2012) Anastasia G. Konshina et al.   CURRENT PROTEIN & PEPTIDE SCIENCE

Structural and Molecular Diversification of the Anguimorpha Lizard Mandibular Venom Gland System in the Arboreal Species Abronia graminea

(2012) Ivan Koludarov et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Differential Evolution and Neofunctionalization of Snake Venom Metalloprotease Domains

(2012) Andreas Brust et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

Evolution of CRISPs Associated with Toxicoferan-Reptilian Venom and Mammalian Reproduction

(2012) K. Sunagar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Extensive and Continuous Duplication Facilitates Rapid Evolution and Diversification of Gene Families

(2012) Dan Chang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Black mamba venom peptides target acid-sensing ion channels to abolish pain

(2012) Sylvie Diochot et al.   NATURE

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The structural and functional diversification of the Toxicofera reptile venom system

(2012) Bryan G. Fry et al.   TOXICON

Novel transcripts in the maxillary venom glands of advanced snakes

(2012) Bryan G. Fry et al.   TOXICON

Investigating the chemical profile of regenerated scorpion (Parabuthus transvaalicus) venom in relation to metabolic cost and toxicity

(2012) Zia Nisani et al.   TOXICON

Response to “Replies to Fry et al. (Toxicon 2012, 60/4, 434–448). Part A. Analyses of squamate reptile oral glands and their products: A call for caution in formal assignment of terminology designating biological function”

(2012) Timothy N.W. Jackson et al.   TOXICON

The venom optimization hypothesis revisited

(2012) David Morgenstern et al.   TOXICON

Detecting Individual Sites Subject to Episodic Diversifying Selection

(2012) Ben Murrell et al.   PLoS Genetics

Venom gland transcriptomes of two elapid snakes (Bungarus multicinctus and Naja atra) and evolution of toxin genes

(2011) Yu Jiang et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Molding the business end of neurotoxins by diversifying evolution

(2011) Adi Kozminsky-Atias et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Evolutionary Diversification ofMesobuthusα-Scorpion Toxins Affecting Sodium Channels

(2011) Shunyi Zhu et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

Domain Loss Facilitates Accelerated Evolution and Neofunctionalization of Duplicate Snake Venom Metalloproteinase Toxin Genes

(2011) N. R. Casewell et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Random Effects Branch-Site Model for Detecting Episodic Diversifying Selection

(2011) Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Adaptive Evolution of the Venom-Targeted vWF Protein in Opossums that Eat Pitvipers

(2011) Sharon A. Jansa et al.   PLoS One

Datamonkey 2010: a suite of phylogenetic analysis tools for evolutionary biology

(2010) W. Delport et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Identification of a novel snake peptide toxin displaying high affinity and antagonist behaviour for the α2-adrenoceptors

(2010) Céline Rouget et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY

Functional and Structural Diversification of the Anguimorpha Lizard Venom System

(2010) Bryan G. Fry et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The three-finger toxin MTα is a selective α2B-adrenoceptor antagonist

(2010) Katja Koivula et al.   TOXICON

Structure, function and evolution of three-finger toxins: Mini proteins with multiple targets

(2010) R. Manjunatha Kini et al.   TOXICON

The Toxicogenomic Multiverse: Convergent Recruitment of Proteins Into Animal Venoms

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

Role of accelerated segment switch in exons to alter targeting (ASSET) in the molecular evolution of snake venom proteins

(2009) Robin Doley et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Isolation and pharmacological characterization of AdTx1, a natural peptide displaying specific insurmountable antagonism of the α1A-adrenoceptor

(2009) L Quinton et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY

Acquired Resistance to Saliva Anticoagulants by Prey Previously Fed upon by Vampire Bats (Desmodus rotundus): Evidence for Immune Response

(2009) Horacio A. Delpietro et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Evolution and diversification of the Toxicofera reptile venom system

(2009) Bryan G. Fry et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Positions under Positive Selection--Key for Selectivity and Potency of Scorpion  -Toxins

(2009) H. Weinberger et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Evolutionary Fingerprinting of Genes

(2009) S. L. Kosakovsky Pond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Protein structure prediction on the Web: a case study using the Phyre server

(2009) Lawrence A Kelley et al.   Nature Protocols

Accelerated exchange of exon segments in Viperid three-finger toxin genes (Sistrurus catenatus edwardsii; Desert Massasauga)

(2008) Robin Doley et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Irditoxin, a novel covalently linked heterodimeric three-finger toxin with high taxon-specific neurotoxicity

(2008) Joanna Pawlak et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Different Interactions between MT7 Toxin and the Human Muscarinic M1 Receptor in Its Free and N-Methylscopolamine-Occupied States

(2008) C. Fruchart-Gaillard et al.   MOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGY

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

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