Evolution of venomous animals and their toxins /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
[2017]
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| Series: | Toxinology ;
8. Springer reference. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The wider evolutionary context. 1. Evolutionary context of venom in animals / Kevin Arbuckle ; 2. Mutation, duplication, and more in the evolution of venomous animals and their toxins / Anita Malhotra ; 3. Evolution of resistance to toxins in prey / Thomas M. McCabe and Stephen P. Mackessy
- Part II. Toxin evolution in major venomous groups. 4. A critique of the toxicoferan hypothesis / Adam D. Hargreaves, Abigail S. Tucker, and John F. Mulley ; 5. Functional and genetic diversity of toxins in sea anemones / Marymegan Daly ; 6. Revising the role of defense and predation in cone snail venom evolution / Jutty Rajan Prashanth, Sebastien Dutertre, and Richard James Lewis ; 7. Toxicity in cephalopods / Ira R. Cooke, Brooke Whitelaw, Mark Norman, Nikeisha Caruana, and Jan M. Strugnell ; 8. The strategic use of venom by spiders / Allen M. Cooper, David R. Nelsen, and William K. Hayes ; 9. Independent origins of scorpion toxins affecting potassium and sodium channels / Shangfei Zhang, Bin Gao, and Shunyi Zhu ; 10. Parasitoid wasps and their venoms / Mrinalini and John H. Werren ; 11. Venom as a component of external immune defense in Hymenoptera / David Baracchi and Simon Tragust ; 12. Venom use in mammals: evolutionary aspects / Rodrigo Ligabue-Braun
- Part III. Evolution of venom delivery systems. 13. Evolution, morphology, and development of the centipede venom system / Michel M. Dugon ; 14. Evolutionary history of venom glands in the Siluriformes / Jeremy J. Wright ; 15. Evolution of the snake venom delivery system / Harald M.I. Kerkkamp, Nicholas R. Casewell, and Freek J. Vonk
- Part IV. Systematics of venomous groups. 16. Systematics of siphonophores / Gillian M. Mapstone ; 17. Systematics and evolution of the Conoidea / Nicolas Puillandre, Alexander E. Fedosov, and Yuri I. Kantor ; 18. Phylogeny of Annelida / Torsten H. Struck ; 19. Systematics of cephalopods / A.L. Allcock.