The role of defensive ecological interactions in the evolution of conotoxins

Comparison of the Venom Peptides and Their Expression in Closely RelatedConusSpecies: Insights into Adaptive Post-speciation Evolution ofConusExogenomes

(2015) Neda Barghi et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Comparative Venomics Reveals the Complex Prey Capture Strategy of the Piscivorous Cone Snail Conus catus

(2015) S. W. A. Himaya et al.   JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH

Venom-Related Transcripts from Bothrops jararaca Tissues Provide Novel Molecular Insights into the Production and Evolution of Snake Venom

(2015) Inácio L.M. Junqueira-de-Azevedo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Optimized deep-targeted proteotranscriptomic profiling reveals unexploredConustoxin diversity and novel cysteine frameworks

(2015) Vincent Lavergne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Specialized insulin is used for chemical warfare by fish-hunting cone snails

(2015) Helena Safavi-Hemami et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

δ-Conotoxin SuVIA suggests an evolutionary link between ancestral predator defence and the origin of fish-hunting behaviour in carnivorous cone snails

(2015) Ai-Hua Jin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An efficient transcriptome analysis pipeline to accelerate venom peptide discovery and characterisation

(2015) Jutty Rajan Prashanth et al.   TOXICON

Conotoxin αD-GeXXA utilizes a novel strategy to antagonize nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

(2015) Shaoqiong Xu et al.   Scientific Reports

The Evolutionary Potential of Phenotypic Mutations

(2015) Hayato Yanagida et al.   PLoS Genetics

One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails

(2014) N. Puillandre et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLLUSCAN STUDIES

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

(2014) Neda Barghi et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the cone snails (Gastropoda, Conoidea)

(2014) N. Puillandre et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Intraspecific variations in Conus geographus defence-evoked venom and estimation of the human lethal dose

(2014) Sébastien Dutertre et al.   TOXICON

Evolution of long-toothed fishes and the changing nature of fish–benthos interactions on coral reefs

(2014) David R. Bellwood et al.   Nature Communications

Evolution of separate predation- and defence-evoked venoms in carnivorous cone snails

(2014) Sébastien Dutertre et al.   Nature Communications

Isolation and characterization of α-conotoxin LsIA with potent activity at nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

(2013) Marco C. Inserra et al.   BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY

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

Transcriptomic Messiness in the Venom Duct ofConus milesContributes to Conotoxin Diversity

(2013) Ai-hua Jin et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

FUBAR: A Fast, Unconstrained Bayesian AppRoximation for Inferring Selection

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

A Novel Inhibitor of α9α10 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors from Conus vexillum Delineates a New Conotoxin Superfamily

(2013) Sulan Luo et al.   PLoS One

Molecular Evolution and Diversity of Conus Peptide Toxins, as Revealed by Gene Structure and Intron Sequence Analyses

(2013) Yun Wu et al.   PLoS One

Asymmetric selection and the evolution of extraordinary defences

(2013) Mark C. Urban et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

Biotic Interactions, Rapid Evolution, and the Establishment of Introduced Species

(2012) Emily I. Jones et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Unipro UGENE: a unified bioinformatics toolkit

(2012) Konstantin Okonechnikov et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

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

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

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

jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

(2012) Diego Darriba et al.   NATURE METHODS

Dendroscope 3: An Interactive Tool for Rooted Phylogenetic Trees and Networks

(2012) Daniel H. Huson et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Diversity and evolution of conotoxins in Conus virgo, Conus eburneus, Conus imperialis and Conus marmoreus from the South China Sea

(2012) Zhuguo Liu et al.   TOXICON

Complex cocktails: the evolutionary novelty of venoms

(2012) Nicholas R. Casewell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Detecting Individual Sites Subject to Episodic Diversifying Selection

(2012) Ben Murrell et al.   PLoS Genetics

ProtTest 3: fast selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

(2011) Diego Darriba et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

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

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

Spatial Geographic Mosaic in an Aquatic Predator-Prey Network

(2011) Johel Chaves-Campos et al.   PLoS One

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

(2010) W. Delport et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

MetaPIGA v2.0: maximum likelihood large phylogeny estimation using the metapopulation genetic algorithm and other stochastic heuristics

(2010) Raphaël Helaers et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Messy biology and the origins of evolutionary innovations

(2010) Dan S Tawfik   Nature Chemical Biology

TranslatorX: multiple alignment of nucleotide sequences guided by amino acid translations

(2010) Federico Abascal et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Metamorphic proteins mediate evolutionary transitions of structure

(2010) I. Yadid et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Characterization of endogenous calcium responses in neuronal cell lines

(2009) Irina Vetter et al.   BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY

Novel αD-Conopeptides and Their Precursors Identified by cDNA Cloning Define the D-Conotoxin Superfamily†‡

(2009) Marion L. Loughnan et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Remarkable inter- and intra-species complexity of conotoxins revealed by LC/MS

(2009) Jasmine Davis et al.   PEPTIDES

Protein Dynamism and Evolvability

(2009) N. Tokuriki et al.   SCIENCE

New conopeptides of the D-superfamily selectively inhibiting neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

(2009) S. Kauferstein et al.   TOXICON

The three-dimensional structure of the analgesic α-conotoxin, RgIA

(2008) Richard J. Clark et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Evolution of ecological specialization and venom of a predatory marine gastropod

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