Unveiling the Evolutionary History of European Vipers and Their Venoms From a Multi-Omic Approach.

ABSTRACT: Snake genomes attract significant attention from multiple disciplines, including medicine, drug bioprospection, and evolutionary biology. However, genomic research within the Viperidae family has mostly focused on the subfamily Crotalinae, while the true vipers (Viperinae) have largely been overlooked. European vipers (Vipera) have been the subject of extensive research due to their phylogeographic and ecological diversification, as well as their venoms. Nevertheless, phylogeography and systematics in this genus have primarily relied on biased information from mitochondrial genes, which fail to capture the likely effects of introgression and are prone to biases. On the other hand, venom research in this group has been conducted predominantly through proteomics alone. In this study, we gene

SUBMITTER: Talavera A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12573727 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature