Analysis of Soluble Protein Contents from the Nematocysts of a Model Sea Anemone Sheds Light on Venom Evolution

Proteome of Hydra Nematocyst

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Recurrent Horizontal Transfer of Bacterial Toxin Genes to Eukaryotes

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Characterization of taxonomically restricted genes in a phylum-restricted cell type

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A bifunctional sea anemone peptide with Kunitz type protease and potassium channel inhibiting properties

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Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: Cnidaria

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Nervous systems of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis are generated by ectoderm and endoderm and shaped by distinct mechanisms

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Enzymatic toxins from snake venom: structural characterization and mechanism of catalysis

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Metalloproteinases inDrosophilato Humans That Are Central Players in Developmental Processes

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

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Using the Acropora digitifera genome to understand coral responses to environmental change

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Peptide fingerprinting of the neurotoxic fractions isolated from the secretions of sea anemones Stichodactyla helianthus and Bunodosoma granulifera. New members of the APETx-like family identified by a 454 pyrosequencing approach

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Morphological and Molecular Analysis of the Nematostella vectensis Cnidom

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Neurotoxin localization to ectodermal gland cells uncovers an alternative mechanism of venom delivery in sea anemones

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CDD: a Conserved Domain Database for the functional annotation of proteins

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Nematogalectin, a nematocyst protein with GlyXY and galectin domains, demonstrates nematocyte-specific alternative splicing in Hydra

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The Toxicogenomic Multiverse: Convergent Recruitment of Proteins Into Animal Venoms

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Astacin-like metalloproteases are a gene family of toxins present in the venom of different species of the brown spider (genus Loxosceles)

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trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses

(2009) S. Capella-Gutierrez et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Tentacles of Venom: Toxic Protein Convergence in the Kingdom Animalia

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BMPs and Chordin regulate patterning of the directive axis in a sea anemone

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A muscle-specific transgenic reporter line of the sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis

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Cnidarian internal stinging mechanism

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Coevolution of diet and prey-specific venom activity supports the role of selection in snake venom evolution

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Actions of sea anemone type 1 neurotoxins on voltage-gated sodium channel isoforms

(2009) Enzo Wanke et al.   TOXICON

Sea anemone toxins affecting voltage-gated sodium channels – molecular and evolutionary features

(2009) Yehu Moran et al.   TOXICON

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

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The phylum Cnidaria and investigations of its toxins and venoms until 1990

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

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The CAP Superfamily: Cysteine-Rich Secretory Proteins, Antigen 5, and Pathogenesis-Related 1 Proteins—Roles in Reproduction, Cancer, and Immune Defense

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Molecular Determinants of Xolloid Actionin Vivo

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Intron Retention as a Posttranscriptional Regulatory Mechanism of Neurotoxin Expression at Early Life Stages of the Starlet Anemone Nematostella vectensis

(2008) Yehu Moran et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Evolution of complex structures: minicollagens shape the cnidarian nematocyst

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