Sentences with phrase «king cobra in»

Thus we'd love to see the world's largest king cobra in a zoo display, but not in our shower stall.

After the escape fiasco, Laita decided to photograph the king cobra in a plexiglass box to prevent another high speed chase.

Not exact matches

Dr Nicholas Casewell said: «These are the first snake genomes to be sequenced and fully annotated and our results in relation to the king cobra provide a unique view of the origin and evolution of snake venom, including revealing multiple genome - level adaptive responses to natural selection in this complex biological weapon system.

The diversification of these toxins correlates directly with their functional importance in prey capture, for example the most pathogenic king cobra toxin family have undergone massive expansion, while, in contrast, venom proteins with less important functions do not participate in the evolutionary arms race occurring between snakes and their prey.

Armed with the both the king cobra and Burmese python genome the team was able to show that, despite previous hypotheses that venom genes evolve «early» in the lineage leading to snakes, venom gene families do not duplicate early, in fact the study shows that the rapid and extensive expansion of functionally important venom toxin families is restricted to the venomous «advanced» snake lineage.

Researchers from LSTM, along with a team of international biologists who have recently sequenced the genome of the king cobra, say that their work reveals dynamic evolution and adaptation in the snake venom system, which seemingly occurs in response to an evolutionary arms race between venomous snakes and their prey.

The scientists who sequenced the king cobra — which occurs in India, China, and Southeast Asia — focused on its venom, a very toxic mix of 73 peptides and proteins.

This is one of the best places in India to charm a king cobra.