Unlocking the venom vault: Museum venomics reveals an untapped biochemical archive in natural history collections
Damien Esquerré, J. Scott Keogh, Daniel Dashevsky, Joseph Boileau, Adam James Carroll, Nathan L. Dunstan, Alexander S. Mikheyev
The paper profiles venoms from museum and fresh snake specimens, showing preserved samples yield reliable quantitative data and revealing new venom diversity patterns.
bioRxiv · May 22, 2026 · PreprintMolecular Biology