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Venoms of Dipluridae

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Arthropod Venoms

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Scanty research has been carried out on poisonous diplurid genera other than Atrax which, because of its venom potency and the occurrence of human envenomations, is the only important genus.

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Gray, M.R., Sutherland, S.K. (1978). Venoms of Dipluridae. In: Bettini, S. (eds) Arthropod Venoms. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology / Handbuch der experimentellen Pharmakologie, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45501-8_7

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