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| Title |
Rapid Radiations and the Race to Redundancy: An Investigation of the Evolution of Australian Elapid Snake Venoms
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| Published in |
Toxins, October 2016
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| DOI | 10.3390/toxins8110309 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Timothy N. W. Jackson, Ivan Koludarov, Syed A. Ali, James Dobson, Christina N. Zdenek, Daniel Dashevsky, Bianca op den Brouw, Paul P. Masci, Amanda Nouwens, Peter Josh, Jonathan Goldenberg, Vittoria Cipriani, Chris Hay, Iwan Hendrikx, Nathan Dunstan, Luke Allen, Bryan G. Fry |
| Abstract |
Australia is the stronghold of the front-fanged venomous snake family Elapidae. The Australasian elapid snake radiation, which includes approximately 100 terrestrial species in Australia, as well as Melanesian species and all the world's sea snakes, is less than 12 million years old. The incredible phenotypic and ecological diversity of the clade is matched by considerable diversity in venom composition. The clade's evolutionary youth and dynamic evolution should make it of particular interest to toxinologists, however, the majority of species, which are small, typically inoffensive, and seldom encountered by non-herpetologists, have been almost completely neglected by researchers. The present study investigates the venom composition of 28 species proteomically, revealing several interesting trends in venom composition, and reports, for the first time in elapid snakes, the existence of an ontogenetic shift in the venom composition and activity of brown snakes (Pseudonaja sp.). Trends in venom composition are compared to the snakes' feeding ecology and the paper concludes with an extended discussion of the selection pressures shaping the evolution of snake venom. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 5 | 45% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 18% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 3 | 27% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 55% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 27% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 9% |
| Scientists | 1 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 77 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 76 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 14 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 14% |
| Researcher | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 11 | 14% |
| Unknown | 19 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 25 | 32% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 15 | 19% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 4% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 4% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 5 | 6% |
| Unknown | 24 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 442. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 September 2022.
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#64,403
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#6
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#1,414
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#3
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