Australian funnel-web spiders evolved human-lethal δ-hexatoxins for defense against vertebrate predators

Volker Herzig(University of Tübingen), Bryan G. Fry(The University of Queensland), David T. Wilson(Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine), Eivind A. B. Undheim(The University of Queensland), Kartik Sunagar(Indian Institute of Science Bangalore), Mathilde R. Israel(King's College London), Richard J. Lewis(AstraZeneca (Netherlands)), Frank Bosmans(Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Sébastien Dutertre(École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier), Wayne C. Hodgson(Monash Health), Sandy S. Pineda(The University of Sydney), Brianna Sollod McFarland, Irina Vetter(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Paul F. Alewood(The University of Queensland), Glenn F. King(The University of Queensland)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
September 21, 2020
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