John F Mulley

TL;DR: In this article, the authors sequenced the genome of spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus), whose lineage diverged from teleosts before teleost genome duplication (TGD).

TL;DR: Transcriptomic analysis of transcriptomic data for body tissues and salivary and venom glands from five species of venomous and nonvenomous reptiles reveals that snake venom does not evolve through the hypothesized process of duplication and recruitment of genes encoding body proteins, and that many proposed venom toxins are in fact expressed in a wide variety of body tissues.

TL;DR: It is proposed that this homeobox gene cluster is held together in chordates by the existence of interdigitated control regions that could be separated after locus duplication in the teleost fish.

TL;DR: Quantitative transcriptomic analyses of venom and salivary glands and other body tissues in five species of reptile shows that the majority of genes used to support the establishment and expansion of the Toxicofera are in fact expressed in multiple body tissues and most likely represent general maintenance or "housekeeping" genes.

TL;DR: It is shown that genomic structural variation at multiple loci underlies extreme geographical variation in venom composition, which is maintained despite extensive gene flow, and how the interplay between genomic architecture and local-scale spatial heterogeneity in selective pressures may facilitate the retention of adaptive functional polymorphisms across a continuous space.