Complex cocktails: the evolutionary novelty of venoms.

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• Publication year

  2013

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  Trends in Ecology & Evolution

• Publication date

  2013-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2012.10.020PMID 23219381
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