Rafflesia is a genus of holoparasitic plants endemic to Southeast Asia that has lost the ability to undertake photosynthesis.
Adaptive radiation of venomous marine snail lineages and the accelerated evolution of venom peptide genes
Olivera B.M., Watkins M., Bandyopadhyay P., Imperial J.S., de la Cotera E.P., Aguilar M.B., Vera E.L., Concepcion G.P., Lluisma A.O.
An impressive biodiversity (>10,000 species) of marine snails (suborder Toxoglossa or superfamily Conoidea) have complex venoms, each containing approximately 100 biologically active, disulfide-rich peptides. In the genus Conus, the most intensively investigated toxoglossan lineage (∼500 species), a small set of venom gene superfamilies undergo rapid sequence hyperdiversification within their mature toxin regions.
Production of immunoglobulin Y (IgY) against synthetic peptide analogs of the immunogenic epitopes of the hepatitis B surface antigen
Guevarra Leonardo A; Leano Milagros B; Dalmacio Leslie M; Yu Gracia Fe B; Destura Raul V; Libranda-Ramirez Bernadette; Estacio Rhodora C
Several studies have been conducted on the use of Immunoglobulin Y (IgY) technology in the fields of diagnostics and therapeutics.