Figure 2.

Preliminary analysis of three finger toxin isoforms in the king cobra genome. (a) Phylogeny showing isoform numbers; (b) Expression level (transcript abundance) in the venom gland; (c) Apparent copy number in genome. One hypothesis consistent with the figure is that the more recently expanded paralogues tend to be more highly expressed. The figure is an unpublished analysis by one of us (Christiaan Henkel) based on data in Ref. [3]. See Table 4 for corresponding genome sequencing and accession codes of the three finger toxin isoforms.