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On the U-M Gateway: slow snails, fast genes

Monday, April 02, 2012

When tropical marine cone snails sink their harpoon-like teeth into their prey, they inject paralyzing venoms made from a potent mix of more than 100 different neurotoxins. Shown here is the oak cone, Conus quercinus, one of the species examined in the U-M study. Image credit: Jeanette JohnsonA groundbreaking paper about snail conotoxin evolution by EEB doctoral student Dan Chang and her advisor, Professor Tom Duda, was published online March 29, 2012 in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution.

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Chang, Dan; Duda, Thomas

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