Talk:Cone snail
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- Cone snails are the only known animals that produce D isomer amino acids.
This sounds extremely interesting, now where's the source ? Taw 00:16, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Cone snails are the only known animals that produce D isomer amino acids.
There are no references for this in the article, and searching google and pubmed doesn't return any relevant results. So unless someone has some reference, I'm removing this sentence. Taw 08:59, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
- If you enter "cone snail containing D isomer amino acids?" into Google, you will find that the issue concerning amino acids comes up..and not only with the Cone Snail. Other land dwelling snails seem to contain useful amino acids. Molliemcguire 19:15, 29 November 2006 (UTC)molliemcguire
non scientific name for conus geographus?
Having researched cone snails extensively for a report, I think I can be of help here. Conus geographus, like many other cone snails, is simply given the common name "cone snail". As for the amino acids part, the snails produce extremly potent neurological chemicals that "hack" the nervous system to do things like cause instant paralysis. They are being researched for medical purposes because of their extrem speed of effect, and lack of side effects(which would slow down the venom by getting in the way, a bad thing for a slow moving snail.) --Scorpion451 06:03, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
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