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. 2017 Jun 8;9(6):187. doi: 10.3390/toxins9060187

Figure 1.

Figure 1

These Brazilian Micrurus venoms all contain three-finger toxins (3FTxs) and phospholipases A2 (PLA2s), but but they vary greatly in the relative proportions and subclasses thereof, and in the types and amounts of minor toxins as well. (A) Major toxins comprising ≥2% of the toxin portion a given transcriptome. The “other” portion of each venom (black) was comprised of minor components; (B) Minor toxins representing between 0.1% and 2.0% of the toxin transcriptome. Each venom contained still other toxins at trace levels, each amounting to less than 0.1% of the transcriptome. Micrurus s. spixii possesses the simplest venom, with 3FTxs and PLA2s accounting for just over 99% of the transcriptome, and comprising only six major and minor toxin classes.