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

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

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

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

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

Venom evolution through gene duplications

(2012) Emily S.W. Wong et al.   GENE

Why Transcription Factor Binding Sites Are Ten Nucleotides Long

(2012) A. J. Stewart et al.   GENETICS

Venomics and antivenomics profiles of North African Cerastes cerastes and C. vipera populations reveals a potentially important therapeutic weakness

(2012) Laila Fahmi et al.   Journal of Proteomics

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

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

Dissecting molecular stress networks: identifying nodes of divergence between life-history phenotypes

(2012) Tonia S. Schwartz et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

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

Profiling the venom gland transcriptomes of Costa Rican snakes by 454 pyrosequencing

(2011) Jordi Durban et al.   BMC GENOMICS

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

(2011) Yu Jiang et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Reptilian-transcriptome v1.0, a glimpse in the brain transcriptome of five divergent Sauropsida lineages and the phylogenetic position of turtles

(2011) Athanasia C Tzika et al.   EvoDevo

A garter snake transcriptome: pyrosequencing, de novo assembly, and sex-specific differences

(2010) Tonia S Schwartz et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Unique structural characteristics and evolution of a cluster of venom phospholipase A2 isozyme genes of Protobothrops flavoviridis snake

(2010) Naoki Ikeda et al.   GENE

Snake bite

(2010) David A Warrell   LANCET

Whole transcriptome analysis of the fasting and fed Burmese python heart: insights into extreme physiological cardiac adaptation

(2010) Christopher E. Wall et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICS

Evolution of an antifreeze protein by neofunctionalization under escape from adaptive conflict

(2010) C. Deng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

BLAST+: architecture and applications

(2009) Christiam Camacho et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Atypical relaxation of structural constraints in Hox gene clusters of the green anole lizard

(2009) N. Di-Poi et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Evolution and diversification of the Toxicofera reptile venom system

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

Combined snake venomics and venom gland transcriptomic analysis of the ocellated carpet viper, Echis ocellatus

(2008) Simon C. Wagstaff et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Exploring snake venom proteomes: multifaceted analyses for complex toxin mixtures

(2008) Jay W. Fox et al.   PROTEOMICS