P. Gopalakrishnakone – Evolution of Venomous Animals and Their Toxins (2017)

Автор: P. Gopalakrishnakone
Название книги: Evolution of Venomous Animals and Their Toxins
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Токсины
Страницы: 449
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

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