Snake Genome Sequencing: Results and Future Prospects

Historical Contingency in a Multigene Family Facilitates Adaptive Evolution of Toxin Resistance

(2016) Joel W. McGlothlin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Deep Origin and Recent Loss of Venom Toxin Genes in Rattlesnakes

(2016) Noah L. Dowell et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Regulation of expression of venom toxins: silencing of prothrombin activator trocarin D by AG-rich motifs

(2016) Summer Xia Han et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

A Comparison of One-Rate and Two-Rate Inference Frameworks for Site-Specific dN/dS Estimation

(2016) S. J. Spielman et al.   GENETICS

Distribution ofRPTLNGenes Across Reptilia: Hypothesized Role for RPTLN in the Evolution of SVMPs

(2016) Raquel Sanz-Soler et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Protein species and moonlighting proteins: Very small changes in a protein's covalent structure can change its biochemical function

(2016) Constance J. Jeffery   Journal of Proteomics

AstraZeneca launches project to sequence 2 million genomes

(2016) Heidi Ledford   NATURE

Evolutionary trajectories of snake genes and genomes revealed by comparative analyses of five-pacer viper

(2016) Wei Yin et al.   Nature Communications

What Is a Genome?

(2016) Aaron David Goldman et al.   PLoS Genetics

Insights into the Evolution of a Snake Venom Multi-Gene Family from the Genomic Organization of Echis ocellatus SVMP Genes

(2016) Libia Sanz et al.   Toxins

Oxford Nanopore MinION Sequencing and Genome Assembly

(2016) Hengyun Lu et al.   GENOMICS PROTEOMICS & BIOINFORMATICS

Challenges, Solutions, and Quality Metrics of Personal Genome Assembly in Advancing Precision Medicine

(2016) Wenming Xiao et al.   Pharmaceutics

Osteology and Cartilaginous Elements ofTrilepida salgueiroi(Amaral, 1954) (Scolecophidia: Leptotyphlopidae)

(2015) Roberta R. Pinto et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Prey-Capture Strategies of Fish-Hunting Cone Snails: Behavior, Neurobiology and Evolution

(2015) Baldomero M. Olivera et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Repeat DNA in genome organization and stability

(2015) Jan Padeken et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Is there more than one way to skin a newt? Convergent toxin resistance in snakes is not due to a common genetic mechanism

(2015) C R Feldman et al.   HEREDITY

Visual system evolution and the nature of the ancestral snake

(2015) B. F. Simões et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

Targeted capture in evolutionary and ecological genomics

(2015) Matthew R. Jones et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evolution of the snake body form reveals homoplasy in amniote Hox gene function

(2015) Jason J. Head et al.   NATURE

Snake venoms: A brief treatise on etymology, origins of terminology, and definitions

(2015) Scott A. Weinstein   TOXICON

Scaffolding of a bacterial genome using MinION nanopore sequencing

(2015) E. Karlsson et al.   Scientific Reports

The Genome 10K Project: A Way Forward

(2015) Klaus-Peter Koepfli et al.   Annual Review of Animal Biosciences

The genome sequence of the corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus), a valuable resource for EvoDevo studies in squamates

(2015) Asier Ullate-Agote et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Heterochrony and Early Left-Right Asymmetry in the Development of the Cardiorespiratory System of Snakes

(2015) Benjamin J. van Soldt et al.   PLoS One

Restriction and Recruitment—Gene Duplication and the Origin and Evolution of Snake Venom Toxins

(2014) Adam D. Hargreaves et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Multiple evidence strands suggest that there may be as few as 19 000 human protein-coding genes

(2014) Iakes Ezkurdia et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Expression of Venom Gene Homologs in Diverse Python Tissues Suggests a New Model for the Evolution of Snake Venom

(2014) Jacobo Reyes-Velasco et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Single-cell RNA-seq: advances and future challenges

(2014) Antoine-Emmanuel Saliba et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Medically important differences in snake venom composition are dictated by distinct postgenomic mechanisms

(2014) N. R. Casewell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Endogenous hepadnaviruses, bornaviruses and circoviruses in snakes

(2014) C. Gilbert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Testing the Toxicofera: Comparative transcriptomics casts doubt on the single, early evolution of the reptile venom system

(2014) Adam D. Hargreaves et al.   TOXICON

Beyond sequencing: optical mapping of DNA in the age of nanotechnology and nanoscopy

(2013) Michal Levy-Sakin et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

The Burmese python genome reveals the molecular basis for extreme adaptation in snakes

(2013) T. A. Castoe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The king cobra genome reveals dynamic gene evolution and adaptation in the snake venom system

(2013) F. J. Vonk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ancient cis-regulatory constraints and the evolution of genome architecture

(2013) Manuel Irimia et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Comparative Sex Chromosome Genomics in Snakes: Differentiation, Evolutionary Strata, and Lack of Global Dosage Compensation

(2013) Beatriz Vicoso et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Assemblathon 2: evaluating de novo methods of genome assembly in three vertebrate species

(2013) Keith R Bradnam et al.   GigaScience

Incorporating RNA-seq data into the zebrafish Ensembl genebuild

(2012) J. E. Collins et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Non-enzymatic proteins from snake venoms: A gold mine of pharmacological tools and drug leads

(2012) Ryan J.R. McCleary et al.   TOXICON

Complex cocktails: the evolutionary novelty of venoms

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

Dynamic evolution of venom proteins in squamate reptiles

(2012) Nicholas R. Casewell et al.   Nature Communications

Snake venom: From fieldwork to the clinic

(2011) Freek J. Vonk et al.   BIOESSAYS

Discovery of Highly Divergent Repeat Landscapes in Snake Genomes Using High-Throughput Sequencing

(2011) Todd A. Castoe et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The genome of the green anole lizard and a comparative analysis with birds and mammals

(2011) Jessica Alföldi et al.   NATURE

Improving animal phylogenies with genomic data

(2011) Maximilian J. Telford et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Repetitive Elements May Comprise Over Two-Thirds of the Human Genome

(2011) A. P. Jason de Koning et al.   PLoS Genetics

Nerve Growth Factor Inhibits Metalloproteinase-Disintegrins and Blocks Ectodomain Shedding of Platelet Glycoprotein VI

(2010) Lakshmi C. Wijeyewickrema et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Changes in Hox genes’ structure and function during the evolution of the squamate body plan

(2010) Nicolas Di-Poï et al.   NATURE

Molecular basis of infrared detection by snakes

(2010) Elena O. Gracheva et al.   NATURE

The population genetics of mutations: good, bad and indifferent

(2010) L. Loewe et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Evolutionary origin and development of snake fangs

(2008) Freek J. Vonk et al.   NATURE