Toxins and venoms
Abstract
The labels 'venom' and 'toxin' refer to different modes of delivery of a poisonous compound, rather than the chemistry of the compound itself. This difference in delivery inexorably leads to disparate evolutionary paths and patterns.
- Publication:
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Current Biology
- Pub Date:
- November 2009
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2009CBio...19.R931B