Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Micro and macroevolution of sea anemone venom phenotype

  • Edward G. Smith,
  • Joachim M. Surm,
  • Jason Macrander,
  • Adi Simhi,
  • Guy Amir,
  • Maria Y. Sachkova,
  • Magda Lewandowska,
  • Adam M. Reitzel,
  • Yehu Moran

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35794-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Venom is a complex trait with unresolved underlying toxin expression dynamics. Here, the authors compare expression across sea anemone species, revealing variation in dominant toxin diploid copy number across populations which generates distinct haplotypes.