Snake venoms are mixtures of toxins that vary extensively between and within snake
species. This variability has serious consequences for the management of the world's 1.8 …

Advances in the last decade combining transcriptomics with established proteomics
methods have made possible rapid identification and quantification of protein families in …

Animal venoms have evolved over millions of years for prey capture and defense from
predators and rivals. Snake venoms, in particular, have evolved a wide diversity of peptides …

Venoms have evolved on numerous occasions throughout the animal kingdom. These
'biochemical weapon systems' typically function to facilitate, or protect the producing animal …

Snake venoms are mixtures of numerous proteinacious components that exert diverse
functional activities on a variety of physiological targets. Because the toxic constituents …

Snakes are limbless predators, and many species use venom to help overpower relatively
large, agile prey. Snake venoms are complex protein mixtures encoded by several …

Spiders are diverse, predatory arthropods that have inhabited Earth for around 400 million
years. They are well known for their complex venom systems that are used to overpower …

Variation in venom composition is a ubiquitous phenomenon in snakes and occurs both
interspecifically and intraspecifically. Venom variation can have severe outcomes for …

Snake venom metalloproteinases (SVMPs) represent a diverse group of multi-domain
proteins with several biological activities such as the ability to induce hemorrhage …

Fine-tuned by millions of years of evolution, snake venoms have frightened but also
fascinated humanity and nowadays they constitute potential resources for drug …