Ecological release and venom evolution of a predatory marine snail at Easter Island.

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Published in PLoS One on May 20, 2009

Authors

Thomas F Duda1, Taehwan Lee

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. tfduda@umich.edu

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