ReviewBrain, behavior and evolution2015
Prey-Capture Strategies of Fish-Hunting Cone Snails: Behavior, Neurobiology and Evolution.
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- The Venom Revolution in Biomedicine: Unlocking Nature's Toxin Toolkit for Therapeutic Innovation.Toxicology reports · 2026Review
- Evolution of sensory systems underlies the emergence of predatory feeding behaviors in nematodes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- The biomechanics of fish skin: assessing puncture resistance to the dynamic predatory mechanism of cone snails.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
- Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction Provides Insights into the Structural Diversification and Neofunctionalization of T-superfamily Conotoxins in Conus.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- An N-Terminally Elongated Peptide From Conus rolani Defines a New Class of Ribbon α-Conotoxins Targeting Muscle nAChRs.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025Article
- Diversity and Novelty of Venom Peptides in Vermivorous Cone Snails, SubgenusMarine drugs · 2025Article
- The Biological Role of Conoporins, Actinoporin-like Pore-Forming Toxins from Cone Snails.Toxins · 2025Review
- Evolution of sensory systems underlies the emergence of predatory feeding behaviours in nematodes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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- PeptideMiner-neuropeptide discovery across the animal kingdom.GigaScience · 2025Article
- χ-Conotoxins are an Evolutionary Innovation of Mollusk-Hunting Cone Snails as a Counter-Adaptation to Prey Defense.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Redox-Active Conopeptide Li520 Has Evolved to Catalyze Oxidative Folding of Conotoxins.ACS omega · 2024Article
- A comprehensive review on ziconotide.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Predatory and Defensive Strategies in Cone Snails.Toxins · 2024Review
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- Collaborative Expression: Transcriptomics of Conus virgo Suggests Contribution of Multiple Secretory Glands to Venom Production.Journal of molecular evolution · 2023Article
- Whole Genome Duplication and Gene Evolution in the Hyperdiverse Venomous Gastropods.Molecular biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Coordinated adaptations define the ontogenetic shift from worm- to fish-hunting in a venomous cone snail.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Historical Perspective of the Characterization of Conotoxins Targeting Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels.Marine drugs · 2023Review
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Abstract
The venomous fish-hunting cone snails (Conus) comprise eight distinct lineages evolved from ancestors that preyed on worms. In this article, we attempt to reconstruct events resulting in this shift in food resource by closely examining patterns of behavior, biochemical agents (toxins) that facilitate prey capture and the combinations of toxins present in extant species. The first sections introduce three different hunting behaviors associated with piscivory: 'taser-and-tether', 'net-engulfment' and 'strike-and-stalk'. The first two fish-hunting behaviors are clearly associated with distinct groups of venom components, called cabals, which act in concert to modify the behavior of prey in a specific manner. Derived fish-hunting behavior clearly also correlates with physical features of the radular tooth, the device that injects these biochemical components. Mapping behavior, biochemical components and radular tooth features onto phylogenetic trees shows that fish-hunting behavior emerged at least twice during evolution. The system presented here may be one of the best examples where diversity in structure, physiology and molecular features were initially driven by particular pathways selected through behavior.
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