Evolution of venomous animals and their toxins

This volume contains a section on the wider evolutionary context of venom in animals, the molecular evolutionary processes involved in generating diversity, and the concept of venom evolution as being driven by an arms race that also involves evolution of resistance to toxins by prey. It also studie...

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Other Authors Malhotra, Anita (Editor), Gopalakrishnakone, P. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer, 2017.
SeriesToxinology,
Subjects
Poisonous animals > Evolution.
Venom.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789400764583
9789400764590
9789400764576
ISSN2542-761X
Physical Description1 online resource : illustrations (some color)

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Table of Contents:
  • A Critique of the Toxicoferan Hypothesis
  • Evolution of Resistance to Toxins in Prey
  • Evolution of Separate Predation- and Defence-Evoked Venoms in Carnivorous Cone Snails
  • Evolutionary Context of Venom in Animals
  • Functional and Genetic Diversity of Toxins in Sea Anemones
  • Independent Origins of Scorpion Toxins Affecting Potassium and Sodium Channels
  • Mutation, Duplication, and More in the Evolution of Venomous Animals and Their Toxins
  • Parasitoid Wasps and Their Venoms
  • The Strategic Use of Venom by Spiders
  • Toxicity in Cephalopods
  • Venom Use in Mammals: Evolutionary Aspects
  • Venom as a Component of External Immune Defense in Hymenoptera
  • Phylogeny of Annelida
  • Systematics and Evolution of the Conoidea
  • Systematics of Cephalopods
  • Systematics of Siphonophores
  • Evolution of the Snake Venom Delivery System
  • Evolution, Morphology and Development of the Centipede Venom System
  • Evolutionary History of Venom Glands in the Siluriformes.

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