Shotgun cloning of toxin genes in a marine gastropod Gemmula speciosa (Reeve 1842)

• Main Authors: Heralde, Francisco M., Lapid, Carlo S., Concepcion, Gisela P., Olivera, Baldomero M., Santos, Ameurfina D.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Turridae—Venom; Marine toxins; Biology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/6859
• Institution: De La Salle University

Turridae forms the largest family of venomous gastropods (Powel 1964, Bouchet 2002) where Gemmula speciose (Reeve 1843) belongs. Unlike Conidae (cone snails), however, the turrid toxicology rests on its primal stages where enormous opportunity for the study emerges more so with the up-and-coming adv...