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Malhotra, Anita.

Evolution of venomous animals and their toxins

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Evolution of venomous animals and their toxinsP. Gopalakrishnakone, editor-in-chief ; Anita Malhotra, editor.
other author:	Malhotra, Anita.
Published:	Dordrecht :Springer Netherlands :2017.
Description:	xix, 446 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Poisonous animalsEvolution.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6458-3
ISBN:	9789400764583$q(electronic bk.)

Evolution of venomous animals and their toxins
Evolution of venomous animals and their toxins[electronic resource] /P. Gopalakrishnakone, editor-in-chief ; Anita Malhotra, editor. - Dordrecht :Springer Netherlands :2017. - xix, 446 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Toxinology,2542-761X. - Toxinology..

A Critique of the Toxicoferan Hypothesis -- Evolution of Resistance to Toxins in Prey -- Evolution of Separate Predation- and Defence-Evoked Venoms in Carnivorous Cone Snails -- Evolutionary Context of Venom in Animals -- Functional and Genetic Diversity of Toxins in Sea Anemones -- Independent Origins of Scorpion Toxins Affecting Potassium and Sodium Channels -- Mutation, Duplication, and More in the Evolution of Venomous Animals and Their Toxins -- Parasitoid Wasps and Their Venoms -- The Strategic Use of Venom by Spiders -- Toxicity in Cephalopods -- Venom Use in Mammals: Evolutionary Aspects -- Venom as a Component of External Immune Defense in Hymenoptera -- Phylogeny of Annelida -- Systematics and Evolution of the Conoidea -- Systematics of Cephalopods -- Systematics of Siphonophores -- Evolution of the Snake Venom Delivery System -- Evolution, Morphology and Development of the Centipede Venom System -- Evolutionary History of Venom Glands in the Siluriformes.

This volume contains a section on the wider evolutionary context of venom in animals, the molecular evolutionary processes involved in generating diversity, and the concept of venom evolution as being driven by an arms race that also involves evolution of resistance to toxins by prey. It also studies the relationship between the evolution of toxins and the evolution of the animals that they evolved within. The last section discusses the evolution of venom delivery systems. The definition of a venomous animal, as opposed to a poisonous one, encompasses the evolution not just of toxins but also a specialized mechanism for administering them by injection.

ISBN: 9789400764583$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-94-007-6458-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

775197
Poisonous animals
--Evolution.

LC Class. No.: QL100

Dewey Class. No.: 591.65

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