Bjoern M von Reumont, Gregor Anderluh, Agostinho Antunes, Naira Ayvazyan, Dimitris Beis, Figen Caliskan, Ana Crnković, Maik Damm, Sebastien Dutertre, Lars Ellgaard, Goran Gajski, Hannah German, Beata Halassy, Benjamin-Florian Hempel, Tim Hucho, Nasit Igci, Maria P Ikonomopoulou, Izhar Karbat, Maria I Klapa, Ivan Koludarov, Jeroen Kool, Tim Lüddecke, Riadh Ben Mansour, Maria Vittoria Modica, Yehu Moran, Ayse Nalbantsoy, María Eugenia Pachón Ibáñez, Alexios Panagiotopoulos, Eitan Reuveny, Javier Sánchez Céspedes, Andy Sombke, Joachim M Surm, Eivind A B Undheim, Aida Verdes, Giulia Zancolli
Venoms have evolved >100 times in all major animal groups, and their components, known as toxins, have been fine-tuned over millions of years into highly effective biochemical weapons. There are many outstanding questions on the evolution of toxin arsenals, such as how venom genes originate, how venom contributes to the fitness of venomous species, and which modifications at the genomic, transcriptomic, and protein level drive their evolution. These questions have received particularly little attention outside of snakes, cone snails, spiders, and scorpions...
May 18, 2022: GigaScience