Structural venomics: evolution of a complex chemical arsenal by massive duplication and neofunctionalization of a single ancestral fold
Sandy S. Pineda, Yanni K-Y. Chin, Eivind A.B. Undheim, Sebastian Senff, Mehdi Mobli, Claire Dauly, Pierre Escoubas, Graham M. Nicholson, Quentin Kaas, John S. Mattick, Glenn F. King
The paper investigates the evolution of spider venom complexity by analyzing the structural and genetic basis of disulfide-rich peptides in the Australian funnel-web spider.
bioRxiv · Dec 3, 2018 · PreprintBiochemistry