A Polychaete’s Powerful Punch: Venom Gland Transcriptomics of Glycera Reveals a Complex Cocktail of Toxin Homologs

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

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

Intraspecific venom variation in the medically significant Southern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus helleri): Biodiscovery, clinical and evolutionary implications

(2014) Kartik Sunagar et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Position-specific scoring matrix and hidden Markov model complement each other for the prediction of conopeptide superfamilies

(2013) Dominique Koua et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS

IDBA-tran: a more robust de novo de Bruijn graph assembler for transcriptomes with uneven expression levels

(2013) Yu Peng et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The venom-gland transcriptome of the eastern coral snake (Micrurus fulvius) reveals high venom complexity in the intragenomic evolution of venoms

(2013) Mark J Margres et al.   BMC GENOMICS

A deep insight into the sialotranscriptome of the mosquito, Psorophora albipes

(2013) Andrezza C Chagas et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Quantitative high-throughput profiling of snake venom gland transcriptomes and proteomes (Ovophis okinavensis and Protobothrops flavoviridis)

(2013) Steven D Aird et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Assessing De Novo transcriptome assembly metrics for consistency and utility

(2013) Shawn T O’Neil et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Pyrosequencing the salivary transcriptome ofHaemadipsa interrupta(Annelida: Clitellata: Haemadipsidae): anticoagulant diversity and insight into the evolution of anticoagulation capabilities in leeches

(2013) Sebastian Kvist et al.   INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

The “Vampirome”: Transcriptome and proteome analysis of the principal and accessory submaxillary glands of the vampire bat Desmodus rotundus, a vector of human rabies

(2013) Ivo M.B. Francischetti et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Dracula's children: Molecular evolution of vampire bat venom

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

The First Venomous Crustacean Revealed by Transcriptomics and Functional Morphology: Remipede Venom Glands Express a Unique Toxin Cocktail Dominated by Enzymes and a Neurotoxin

(2013) Björn M. von Reumont et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Molecular Evolution of α-Latrotoxin, the Exceptionally Potent Vertebrate Neurotoxin in Black Widow Spider Venom

(2013) Jessica E. Garb et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Echidna Venom Gland Transcriptome Provides Insights into the Evolution of Monotreme Venom

(2013) Emily S. W. Wong et al.   PLoS One

The Venom Gland Transcriptome of Latrodectus tredecimguttatus Revealed by Deep Sequencing and cDNA Library Analysis

(2013) Quanze He et al.   PLoS One

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

Proteomic characterisation of toxins isolated from nematocysts of the South Atlantic jellyfish Olindias sambaquiensis

(2013) Andrew J. Weston et al.   TOXICON

Proteinaceous toxins from three species of scorpaeniform fish (lionfish Pterois lunulata, devil stinger Inimicus japonicus and waspfish Hypodytes rubripinnis): Close similarity in properties and primary structures to stonefish toxins

(2013) Aya Kiriake et al.   TOXICON

Earthworm-Derived Pore-Forming Toxin Lysenin and Screening of Its Inhibitors

(2013) Neelanun Sukumwang et al.   Toxins

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

(2013) Keith R Bradnam et al.   GigaScience

Adaptive radiation of venomous marine snail lineages and the accelerated evolution of venom peptide genes

(2012) Baldomero M. Olivera et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Spider-Venom Peptides: Structure, Pharmacology, and Potential for Control of Insect Pests

(2012) Glenn F. King et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Proteome of Hydra Nematocyst

(2012) Prakash G. Balasubramanian et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Large-scale discovery of conopeptides and conoproteins in the injectable venom of a fish-hunting cone snail using a combined proteomic and transcriptomic approach

(2012) Aude Violette et al.   Journal of Proteomics

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

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

Venom Proteome of the Box Jellyfish Chironex fleckeri

(2012) Diane L. Brinkman et al.   PLoS One

Structures of Lysenin Reveal a Shared Evolutionary Origin for Pore-Forming Proteins And Its Mode of Sphingomyelin Recognition

(2012) Luigi De Colibus et al.   STRUCTURE

The structural and functional diversification of the Toxicofera reptile venom system

(2012) Bryan G. Fry et al.   TOXICON

Sphingomyelinase D in sicariid spider venom is a potent insecticidal toxin

(2012) Pamela A. Zobel-Thropp et al.   TOXICON

The UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Tox-Prot program: A central hub of integrated venom protein data

(2012) Florence Jungo et al.   TOXICON

The venom optimization hypothesis revisited

(2012) David Morgenstern et al.   TOXICON

Complex cocktails: the evolutionary novelty of venoms

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

Towards a revised Amphinomidae (Annelida, Amphinomida): description and affinities of a new genus and species from the Nile Deep-sea Fan, Mediterranean Sea

(2012) Elizabeth Borda et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

The behavior of sea anemone actinoporins at the water–membrane interface

(2011) Lucía García-Ortega et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

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

(2011) Diego Darriba et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Venoms as a platform for human drugs: translating toxins into therapeutics

(2011) Glenn F King   EXPERT OPINION ON BIOLOGICAL THERAPY

Assemblathon 1: A competitive assessment of de novo short read assembly methods

(2011) D. Earl et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

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

Next-generation transcriptome assembly

(2011) Jeffrey A. Martin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

ConDeTri - A Content Dependent Read Trimmer for Illumina Data

(2011) Linnéa Smeds et al.   PLoS One

The tale of a resting gland: Transcriptome of a replete venom gland from the scorpion Hottentotta judaicus

(2011) David Morgenstern et al.   TOXICON

A high-throughput venom-gland transcriptome for the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) and evidence for pervasive positive selection across toxin classes

(2011) Darin R. Rokyta et al.   TOXICON

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

(2011) Yves Terrat et al.   TOXICON

Time and memory efficient likelihood-based tree searches on phylogenomic alignments with missing data

(2010) A. Stamatakis et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

An insight into the sialome of Glossina morsitans morsitans

(2010) Juliana Alves-Silva et al.   BMC GENOMICS

An insight into the sialotranscriptome of the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus

(2010) Elen Anatriello et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Pharmacological effects of two cytolysins isolated from the sea anemone Stichodactyla helianthus

(2010) T. García et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES

Sustained synaptic-vesicle recycling by bulk endocytosis contributes to the maintenance of high-rate neurotransmitter release stimulated by glycerotoxin

(2010) F. A. Meunier et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Salivary Transcriptome of the North American Medicinal Leech, Macrobdella decora

(2010) Gi-Sik Min et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

DBCP: a web server for disulfide bonding connectivity pattern prediction without the prior knowledge of the bonding state of cysteines

(2010) Hsuan-Hung Lin et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Novel venom gene discovery in the platypus

(2010) Camilla M Whittington et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

The Toxicogenomic Multiverse: Convergent Recruitment of Proteins Into Animal Venoms

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

Potassium Channel Modulation by a Toxin Domain in Matrix Metalloprotease 23

(2009) Srikant Rangaraju et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A novel sphingomyelinase-like enzyme inIxodes scapularistick saliva drives host CD4+T cells to express IL-4

(2009) F.J. ALARCON-CHAIDEZ et al.   PARASITE IMMUNOLOGY

Discovery and characterization of cnidarian peptide toxins that affect neuronal potassium ion channels

(2009) Olga Castañeda et al.   TOXICON

Molecular mechanism of pore formation by actinoporins

(2009) Katarina Črnigoj Kristan et al.   TOXICON

More than just orphans: are taxonomically-restricted genes important in evolution?

(2009) Konstantin Khalturin et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Improved base calling for the Illumina Genome Analyzer using machine learning strategies

(2009) Martin Kircher et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Transcriptome analysis of Loxosceles laeta (Araneae, Sicariidae) spider venomous gland using expressed sequence tags

(2008) Matheus de F Fernandes-Pedrosa et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Molecular Determinants of Sphingomyelin Specificity of a Eukaryotic Pore-forming Toxin

(2008) Biserka Bakrač et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Molecular Evolution, Functional Variation, and Proposed Nomenclature of the Gene Family That Includes Sphingomyelinase D in Sicariid Spider Venoms

(2008) G. J. Binford et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution

(2008) Wesley C. Warren et al.   NATURE

Complanine, an inflammation-inducing substance isolated from the marine fireworm Eurythoe complanata

(2008) Kazuhiko Nakamura et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

Intraspecific variation in the Egyptian scorpion Scorpio maurus palmatus venom collected from different biotopes

(2008) Mohamed A. Abdel-Rahman et al.   TOXICON