Venoms in snakes and salivary protein in mammals share a common origin

Snakes, some lizards and even a few mammals can have a venomous bite. Although these lineages split more than 300 million years ago, their venoms have evolved from the same ancestral salivary protein, reported scientists today in BMC Biology.


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Source: Phys.org