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Conus Peptides, Baldomero "Toto" Olivera
Basic Reading

Olivera, B.M. (1997) E.E. Just Lecture - Conus venom peptides, receptor and ion channel targets, and drug design: 50 million years of neuropharmacology. Mol. Biol. Cell 8:2101-09.

Olivera, B.M. (2002) Conus venom peptides: reflections from the biology of clades and species. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 33:25-47.

Secko, D (2005) The Onus on Conus, The Scientist, March 28, 2005 website: http://www.the-scientist.com/2005/03/28/S32/1/, last accessed September 12, 2006

Advanced Reading
Olivera, B.M., J. Rivier, C. Clark, C.A. Ramilo, G.P. Corpuz, F.C. Abogadie, E.E. Mena, S.R. Woodward, D.R. Hillyard and L.J. Cruz (1990) Diversity of Conus neuropeptides. Science 249:257-63.

Terlau, H., K. Shon, M. Grilley, M. Stocker, W. Stühmer and B.M. Olivera (1996) Strategy for rapid immobilization of prey by a fish-hunting cone snail. Nature 381:148-51.

Santos A.D., J.M. McIntosh, D.R. Hillyard, L.J. Cruz and B.M. Olivera (2004) The A-superfamily of conotoxins: structural and functional divergence. J. Biol. Chem. 279:17596-606.

Terlau, H. and B.M. Olivera (2004) Conus venoms: a rich source of novel ion channel-targeted peptides. Physiol. Rev. 83:41-68.