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Defensins and the convergent evolution of platypus and reptile venom genes - PubMed

  • Expression patterns of platypus defensin and related venom genes across a range of tissue types reveal the possibility of broader functions for OvDLPs than previously suspected.

    Whittington CM, Papenfuss AT, Kuchel PW, Belov K. Whittington CM, et al. Toxicon. 2008 Sep 15;52(4):559-65. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2008.07.002. Epub 2008 Jul 9. Toxicon. 2008. PMID: 18662710

  • Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution.

    Warren WC, Hillier LW, Marshall Graves JA, Birney E, Ponting CP, Grützner F, Belov K, Miller W, Clarke L, Chinwalla AT, Yang SP, Heger A, Locke DP, Miethke P, Waters PD, Veyrunes F, Fulton L, Fulton B, Graves T, Wallis J, Puente XS, López-Otín C, Ordóñez GR, Eichler EE, Chen L, Cheng Z, Deakin JE, Alsop A, Thompson K, Kirby P, Papenfuss AT, Wakefield MJ, Olender T, Lancet D, Huttley GA, Smit AF, Pask A, Temple-Smith P, Batzer MA, Walker JA, Konkel MK, Harris RS, Whittington CM, Wong ES, Gemmell NJ, Buschiazzo E, Vargas Jentzsch IM, Merkel A, Schmitz J, Zemann A, Churakov G, Kriegs JO, Brosius J, Murchison EP, Sachidanandam R, Smith C, Hannon GJ, Tsend-Ayush E, McMillan D, Attenborough R, Rens W, Ferguson-Smith M, Lefèvre CM, Sharp JA, Nicholas KR, Ray DA, Kube M, Reinhardt R, Pringle TH, Taylor J, Jones RC, Nixon B, Dacheux JL, Niwa H, Sekita Y, Huang X, Stark A, Kheradpour P, Kellis M, Flicek P, Chen Y, Webber C, Hardison R, Nelson J, Hallsworth-Pepin K, Delehaunty K, Markovic C, Minx P, Feng Y, Kremitzki C, Mitreva M, Glasscock J, Wylie T, Wohldmann P, Thiru P, Nhan MN, Pohl CS, Smith SM, Hou S, Nefedov M, de Jong PJ, Renfree MB, Mardis ER, Wilson RK. Warren WC, et al. Nature. 2008 May 8;453(7192):175-83. doi: 10.1038/nature06936. Nature. 2008. PMID: 18464734 Free PMC article.

  • A limited role for gene duplications in the evolution of platypus venom.

    Wong ES, Papenfuss AT, Whittington CM, Warren WC, Belov K. Wong ES, et al. Mol Biol Evol. 2012 Jan;29(1):167-77. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msr180. Epub 2011 Aug 3. Mol Biol Evol. 2012. PMID: 21816864 Free PMC article.

  • Venom evolution through gene duplications.

    Wong ES, Belov K. Wong ES, et al. Gene. 2012 Mar 15;496(1):1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2012.01.009. Epub 2012 Jan 18. Gene. 2012. PMID: 22285376 Review.

  • Tracing monotreme venom evolution in the genomics era.

    Whittington CM, Belov K. Whittington CM, et al. Toxins (Basel). 2014 Apr 2;6(4):1260-73. doi: 10.3390/toxins6041260. Toxins (Basel). 2014. PMID: 24699339 Free PMC article. Review.