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cone shell
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cone shell
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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various tropical marine gastropod molluscs of the genus Conus and related genera, having a smooth conical shell Sometimes shortened to cone
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In protein sequence and structure, anntoxin was very similar to dendrotoxins (the venoms found in cobras and other mamba snakes) and cone snail toxins, though anntoxin only has two disulfide bridges (a strong link that helps keep proteins folded) compared to three in the other types.
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Around 500 species of cone snail live in waters around French Polynesia in the southern Pacific.
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