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De Novo Venom-Gland Transcriptomics of Spine-Bellied Sea Snake (Hydrophis curtus) from Penang, Malaysia—Next-Generation Sequencing, Functional Annotation and Toxinological Correlation [PDF]
Toxins, 2021 Envenomation resulted from sea snake bite is a highly lethal health hazard in Southeast Asia. Although commonly caused by sea snakes of Hydrophiinae, each species is evolutionarily distinct and thus, unveiling the toxin gene diversity within individual ...
Choo Hock Tan, Kae Yi Tan
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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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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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Horizontal Transposon Transfer and Its Implications for the Ancestral Ecology of Hydrophiine Snakes. [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2022 Transposable elements (TEs), also known as jumping genes, are sequences able to move or copy themselves within a genome. As TEs move throughout genomes they often act as a source of genetic novelty, hence understanding TE evolution within lineages may ...
Galbraith JD +9 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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First Record of Laticauda semifasciata (Reptilia: Squamata: Elapidae: Laticaudinae) from Korea [PDF]
Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity, 2016 The Chinese sea snake Laticauda semifasciata (Reinwardt in Schlegel, 1837) is newly reported from Korean waters based on three specimens collected from Jeju Island, Korea, in August, September, and November 2015.
Park, Jaejin +3 more
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The adaptive significance of large size at birth in marine snakes
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Evolutionary shifts from one habitat type to another can clarify selective forces that affect life-history attributes. Four lineages of snakes (acrochordids and three clades within the Elapidae) have invaded marine habitats, and all have larger offspring
Richard Shine +4 more
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