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Predictors of orbital convergence in primates: A test of the snake detection hypothesis of primate evolution [PDF]

, 2011
Traditional explanations for the evolution of high orbital convergence and stereoscopic vision in primates have focused on how stereopsis might have aided early primates in foraging or locomoting in an arboreal environment. It has recently been suggested
Alirol, Allman, Araújo, Barros, Barton, Beaupre, Bininda-Emonds, Boinski, Bradley, Brandon C. Wheeler, Brenda J. Bradley, Brown, Burney, Burnham, Campbell, Carbone, Cartmill, Cartmill, Cartmill, Chippaux, Crompton, de Cock Buning, Dorcas, Doyle, Erberle, Faul, Felsenstein, Fitzgerald, Fleagle, Fleagle, Foerster, Forsman, Garland, Greene, Greenwald, Hailey, Harcourt, Hartline, Hartmann, Heesy, Heesy, Heesy, Heesy, Heesy, Hodgson, Hutchinson, Isbell, Isbell, Jason M. Kamilar, Jones, Kamilar, Kamilar, Kamilar, Kamilar, Kirk, Lockwood, Luiselli, Luiselli, Luiselli, Luiselli, Maddison, Martin, Midford, Miller, Morgan, Müller, Nekaris, Nunn, Nunn, Ossi, Ouattara, Perry, Pettigrew, Quinn, Ramakrishnan, Range, Reed, Rogers, Ross, Ross, Ross, Ross, Schall, Schwenk, Shine, Shine, Shine, Skoczylas, Smith, Sokal, Surridge, Sussman, Tan, Tan, Tello, Terribile, Terribile, Towner, van Schaik, Veracini, Wheeler, Wheeler, White, Wright, Wüster, Wüster   +105 more
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Divergent Paths, Convergent Heads: Morphological Adaptation of Head Shape to Habitat Use and Diet in Snakes

Journal of Morphology, Volume 286, Issue 11, November 2025.
Snake head shape is weakly constrained by phylogeny but strongly influenced by ecology. Significant convergence was detected in fossorial and aquatic snakes, while diet mainly drove morphological variation without convergence. ABSTRACT Morphological convergence—where distantly related species evolve similar traits in response to shared ecological ...
David Hudry, Anthony Herrel
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Pliocercus [PDF]

, 2001
Number of Pages: 9Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Chiszar, David, Smith, Hobart M.
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CUSCO: A Tool for Curating Single‐Copy Orthologs and Extracting Marker Genes for Phylogenetic Tree Construction With Extra Samples

Ecological Research, Volume 40, Issue 6, November 2025.
We developed the CUSCO pipeline. It enables rapid construction of a phylogenetic tree using whole genome sequences and identifies useful marker genes for additional samples. It can handle polyploid genomes. ABSTRACT Single‐copy orthologs are often used to reconstruct phylogenetic trees of life. A set of single‐copy orthologs can be prepared by building
Takashi Seiko, Koki Nagasawa, Ken Naito
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Exceptional Visual‐Opsin Coexpression and Phenotypic Diversity in Outer‐Retinal Photoreceptors of Caenophidian Snakes

Journal of Comparative Neurology, Volume 533, Issue 10, October 2025.
In snakes, profound differences in retinal architecture are observed between diurnal and nocturnal species. Additionally, in the rod‐dominated retinas of nocturnal snakes, coexpression of the cone opsins SWS1 and LWS in individual cones is common, while rhodopsin (RH1) is restricted to typical rods.
Einat Hauzman, Silke Haverkamp, Juliana H. Tashiro, Irene L. Gügel, Natalia F. Torello‐Viera, Thaís B. Guedes, Pavel Němec, Nicholas R. Casewell, Cassandra M. Modahl, Maria Ermelinda Oliveira, Ana Lúcia C. Prudente, Daniel O. Mesquita, Dora Fix Ventura, David J. Gower   +13 more
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The Proteome of African Spitting and Non‐Spitting Cobra Venoms and Cytotoxicity Against Pancreatic Cancer Cells

Journal of Applied Toxicology, Volume 45, Issue 10, Page 2055-2067, October 2025.
ABSTRACT African cobra (Naja spp.) venom contains toxins dominated by proteins and peptides with inter‐ and intra‐specific variations. There are several FDA‐approved drugs from snake venom toxins from other regions, including South America and Asia. Profiling the proteomes of medically important African cobra venoms from different locations will aid in
Benedict C. Offor, Beric Muller, Lesetja R. Motadi, Lizelle A. Piater   +3 more
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Best practices: in the 21st century, taxonomic decisions in herpetology are acceptable only when supported by a body of evidence and published via peer-review [PDF]

, 2013
This paper was written by nine authors from five continents, and supported by a further 80 academics and many major herpetological societies including the World Congress of Herpetology, in reaction to burgeoning number of species descriptions being ...
Crother, Brian I., Kaiser, Hinrich, Kelly, Christopher M.R, Luiselli, Luca, O'Shea, Mark, Ota, Hidetoshi, Passos, Paulo, Schleip, Wulf D., Wüster, Wolfgang   +8 more
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Object detection‐assisted workflow facilitates cryptic snake monitoring

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, Volume 11, Issue 5, Page 606-617, October 2025.
Camera traps are powerful tools used to study animals. However, camera trap studies often produce large datasets requiring labor‐intensive classification. While many object detection models have been developed to facilitate image analysis, their efficacy when presented with novel species and systems is poorly understood.
Storm Miller, Michael Kirkland, Kristen M. Hart, Robert A. McCleery   +3 more
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New reports on parasitism by Haplometroides buccicola (Digenea, Plagiorchiidae) in Brazilian snakes

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2008
The occurrence of Haplometroides buccicola (Digenea, Plagiorchiidae) in the esophagus of two Brazilian snakes is reported in the present study. The trematodes were collected from one Micrurus corallinus (Elapidae) and one Phalotris lativittatus ...
KR Santos, TH Barrella, EOP Zica, RJ Silva   +3 more
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Grandmothers and deadly snakes: an unusual project in “citizen science”

Ecosphere, 2019
We describe initial results of an innovative citizen science project that is unusual in its taxonomic focus (deadly sea snakes), its location (the Indo‐Pacific), and its primary contributors (grandmothers from the city of Noumea, New Caledonia).
Claire Goiran, Richard Shine
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