[HTML][HTML] Why do we study animal toxins?

Y Zhang - Zoological research, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Venom (toxins) is an important trait evolved along the evolutionary tree of animals. Our
knowledges on venoms, such as their origins and loss, the biological relevance and the …

Venomics: a new paradigm for natural products-based drug discovery

I Vetter, JL Davis, LD Rash, R Anangi, M Mobli… - Amino acids, 2011 - Springer
The remarkable potency and pharmacological diversity of animal venoms has made them
an increasingly valuable source of lead molecules for drug and insecticide discovery …

Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database

A Bissett, A Fitzgerald, T Meintjes, PM Mele, F Reith… - GigaScience, 2016 - Springer
Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the cone snails (Gastropoda, Conoidea)

N Puillandre, P Bouchet, TF Duda Jr… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2014 - Elsevier
We present a large-scale molecular phylogeny that includes 320 of the 761 recognized valid
species of the cone snails (Conus), one of the most diverse groups of marine molluscs …

Deep venomics reveals the mechanism for expanded peptide diversity in cone snail venom

S Dutertre, A **, Q Kaas, A Jones, PF Alewood… - Molecular & cellular …, 2013 - ASBMB
Cone snails produce highly complex venom comprising mostly small biologically active
peptides known as conotoxins or conopeptides. Early estimates that suggested 50–200 …

Venomics as a drug discovery platform

P Escoubas, GF King - Expert review of proteomics, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Modern drug discovery is increasingly in need of a novel paradigm to replace the classical
blockbuster-based economic model of large pharmaceutical companies. Loss of patent …

Venom composition and strategies in spiders: is everything possible?

L Kuhn-Nentwig, R Stöcklin, W Nentwig - Advances in insect physiology, 2011 - Elsevier
This review on all spider venom components known by the end of 2010 bases on 1618
records for venom compounds from 174 spider species (= 0.41% of all known species) …

Jellyfish venomics and venom gland transcriptomics analysis of Stomolophus meleagris to reveal the toxins associated with sting

R Li, H Yu, W Xue, Y Yue, S Liu, R ** parts of the world, with tens of
thousands of deaths and a multitude of lingering permanent medical conditions on a yearly …

Cone snail venomics: from novel biology to novel therapeutics

JR Prashanth, A Brust, AH **, PF Alewood… - Future medicinal …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Peptide neurotoxins from cone snails called conotoxins are renowned for their therapeutic
potential to treat pain and several neurodegenerative diseases. Inefficient assay-guided …