The Genomic Alchemist's Arsenal: A Comprehensive Review of Gene Recruitment, Regulatory Rewiring, and the Evolutionary Arms Race in Snake Envenomation.
Snake venom represents a striking example of evolutionary innovation, in which ancestral physiological gene networks have been co-opted into potent biochemical weapons. Advances in multi-omics, single-cell genomics, and structural bioinformatics have catalyzed a conceptual shift from descriptive toxin cataloging to a s...