Research identifies importance of diet in snake venom evolution
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 14:35
in Biology & Nature
Axel Barlow's paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B on saw-scaled vipers shows that snakes which have evolved to feed on scorpions have also evolved venom which is more lethal to scorpions, demonstrating that changes in diet have been an important factor in snake venom evolution.