Structural venomics: evolution of a complex chemical arsenal by massive duplication and neofunctionalization of a single ancestral fold
S. S. Pineda, Y. K.-Y. Chin, E. A. B. Undheim, S. Senff, M. Mobli, C. Dauly, P. Escoubas, G. M. Nicholson, Q. Kaas, J. S. Mattick, G. 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