Moreover, venom
research has mostly neglected ancient
animal groups in favor of focusing on
venomous snakes and cone snails, which are both «young»
animal groups that originated only recently in evolutionary timescales, approximately 50 million years ago.
«These findings raise important questions relating to the processes that other
venomous animals may have used to generate their venom toxins,» wroteNicholas Casewell, senior lecturer and Wellcome Trust
research fellow with the Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, in a summary dispatch published alongside the Current Biolog
research fellow with the Alistair Reid Venom
Research Unit at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, in a summary dispatch published alongside the Current Biolog
Research Unit at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, in a summary dispatch published alongside the Current Biology paper.