Australian elapid snake venoms are uniquely procoagulant, utilizing blood clotting enzyme Factor Xa (FXa) as a toxin, which evolved as a basal trait in this clade. The subsequent recruitment of Factor Va (FVa) as a toxin occurred in the last common ancestor of taipans (
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