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Prioritising search effort to locate previously unknown populations of endangered marine reptiles [PDF]
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020 Strategies aimed to conserve and manage rare species are often hindered by the lack of data needed for their effective design. Incomplete and inaccurate data on habitat associations and current species distributions pose a barrier to effective ...
Vinay Udyawer +7 more
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Complete mitochondrial genome of the Ijima's Sea Snake (Emydocephalus ijimae) (Squamata, Elapidae). [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA B Resour, 2019 In this study, we provide the first report of the complete mitochondrial genome of Emydocephalus ijimae. The mitogenome length is 18,259 bp and includes 13 protein-coding genes, two rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes, and three non-coding regions.
Yi CH +7 more
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The behaviour of sea snakes (Emydocephalus annulatus) shifts with the tides. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 Tidal cycles are known to affect the ecology of many marine animals, but logistical obstacles have discouraged behavioural studies on sea snakes in the wild.
Goiran C, Brown GP, Shine R.
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The evolution of scale sensilla in the transition from land to sea in elapid snakes [PDF]
Open Biology, 2016 Scale sensilla are small tactile mechanosensory organs located on the head scales of many squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes). In sea snakes and sea kraits (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae), these scale organs are presumptive scale sensilla that purportedly ...
Jenna M. Crowe-Riddell +5 more
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New Environment, New Invaders-Repeated Horizontal Transfer of LINEs to Sea Snakes. [PDF]
Genome Biol Evol, 2020 While numerous studies have found horizontal transposon transfer (HTT) to be widespread across metazoans, few have focused on HTT in marine ecosystems. To investigate potential recent HTTs into marine species we searched for novel repetitive elements in ...
Galbraith JD +4 more
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Rates of population differentiation and speciation are decoupled in sea snakes. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2018 Comparative phylogeography can inform many macroevolutionary questions, such as whether species diversification is limited by rates of geographical population differentiation.
Nitschke CR +3 more
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When to shed? Patterns and drivers of time to first ecdysis in snakes. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2023 We assessed patterns in time to postnatal ecdysis in snake species, and related measures to various biological traits. Time to postnatal ecdysis can be shorter or longer than the ancestral state, which we estimated at 8–9 days, indicating that there are several competing drivers for time to postnatal ecdysis.
Wagner C +4 more
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Annotated checklist of semi- venomous and venomous snakes of Iraq [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2016 This study includes a check-list of semi-venomous and venomous snakes in Iraq along with their distribution and classification. Collectively, from the family Clubridae, three genera, and seven species of semi-venomous snakes and from the families ...
Israa Nadhim Habeeb +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 12, Issue 4, April 2022., 2022 We show that sea kraits are dependent on microhabitats in old‐growth coastal forest of a topographically flat Fijian atoll for terrestrial activities. Therefore, environmental heterogeneity and high‐quality terrestrial habitats, as well as healthy coral reefs, are essential for sea kraits, making them good flagship species for advocating integrated ...
Christopher Lowe +7 more
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Diversity and Distributions, Volume 27, Issue 10, Page 1942-1957, October 2021., 2021 Abstract Aim Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has demonstrated its applicability as a highly sensitive biomonitoring tool across small spatial and temporal scales in marine ecosystems. However, it has rarely been tested across large spatial scales or biogeographical barriers. Here, we scale up marine eDNA metabarcoding, test its ability to detect
Katrina West +11 more
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