A common venomous ancestor? Prevalent bee venom genes evolved before the aculeate stinger while few major toxins are bee-specific

Ivan Koludarov(Technical University of Munich), Björn M. von Reumont(State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe), Deepak Gupta(National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology), Thomas Timm(Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), Günter Lochnit(Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), Alexander Ben Hamadou(LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics), Lars Podsiadłowski(Portland State University), Sébastien Dutertre(École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier), Andreas Vilcinskas(Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), Timothy Jackson(The University of Melbourne), Mariana Velasque(Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University), Brock A. Harpur(Purdue University West Lafayette), Carola Greve(Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt/M), Burkhard Rost(Institute for Advanced Study), Eckart Stolle(Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), Michael Heinzinger(Technical University of Munich), Rosalyn Gloag(The University of Sydney)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
January 23, 2022
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