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Special Episode: Snake Venom Evolution

This Podcast Will Kill You

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How Did Venom Evolution Happen?

venom glands are essentially modified salivary glands, the same as you or i have in our mouths. They produce proteins and atre used for different purposes for us. But snakes may have re purposed some of these proteins to turn them into a kind of incipient or primitive venom toxins. And one of the key processes that underpins this process is gen duplication. So we see more than 25 iceforms related geans produce related toxins.

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