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Diversity of Aerobic Bacteria Isolated from Oral and Cloacal Cavities from Free‐Living Snakes Species in Costa Rica Rainforest

International Scholarly Research Notices, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
Costa Rica has a significant number of snakebites per year and bacterial infections are often complications in these animal bites. Hereby, this study aims to identify, characterize, and report the diversity of the bacterial community in the oral and cloacal cavities of venomous and nonvenomous snakes found in wildlife in Costa Rica.
Allan Artavia-León, Ariel Romero-Guerrero, Carolina Sancho-Blanco, Norman Rojas, Rodolfo Umaña-Castro, Giovanni Colonna   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic signatures for enhanced olfaction in the African mole-rats [PDF]

, 2014
The Olfactory Receptor (OR) superfamily, the largest in the vertebrate genome, is responsible for vertebrate olfaction and is traditionally subdivided into 17 OR families.
Bishop, Jacqueline M, O'Ryan, Colleen, Stathopoulos, Sofia   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Transcriptomic basis for an antiserum against Micrurus corallinus (coral snake) venom [PDF]

, 2009
Background Micrurus corallinus (coral snake) is a tropical forest snake belonging to the family Elapidae. Its venom shows a high neurotoxicity associated with pre- and post-synaptic toxins, causing diaphragm paralysis, which may result in death. In spite
Luciana I Leão, Paulo L Ho, Inacio de LM Junqueira-de-Azevedo   +2 more
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How the Cobra Got Its Flesh-Eating Venom: Cytotoxicity as a Defensive Innovation and Its Co-Evolution with Hooding, Aposematic Marking, and Spitting [PDF]

, 2017
The cytotoxicity of the venom of 25 species of Old World elapid snake was tested and compared with the morphological and behavioural adaptations of hooding and spitting. We determined that, contrary to previous assumptions, the venoms of spitting species
Angelique Asselin, Arno Naude, Brittany Sanker, Bryan Fry, Chan, Daryl Yang, Freek Vonk, Fry, Harald Kerkkamp, Harold van der Ploeg, Ivan Koludarov, Iwan Hendrikx, James Dobson, Jeremie Tai-A-Pin, John Miles, Kevin Arbuckle, Louis Jacobsz, Marais, Marc Jaeger, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Morné Strydom, Nadya Panagides, Nathan Dunstan, Renan Santana, Romilly van den Bergh, Rudolf Pretzler, Spawls, Syed Ali, Tan, Timothy Jackson, Wallach, Wayne Hodgson, Wüster, Wüster, Yang   +34 more
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Natural History of Curtis Island, Bass Strait - 4. The Reptiles of Curtis and Rodondo Islands [PDF]

, 1973
Four species of reptiles and details of their ecology are recorded from Curtis Island and three species from Rodondo lsland. Curtis and Rodondo Islands are situated in the deepest part of Bass Strait and were the first islands isolated after the most ...
Rawlinson, PA
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Challenges of regulating commercial use of marine elapid snakes in the Indo‐Pacific

Conservation Biology, Volume 38, Issue 5, October 2024.
Abstract Marine elapid snakes are a diverse, predominantly Indo‐West Pacific species group. The persistent removal of some species has an unquantified but potentially dire impact on populations. We conducted the first comprehensive review of the trade in marine elapid snakes based on published literature (1974–2022) and trade data from the only species
Mark Auliya, Arne Redsted Rasmussen, Kate L. Sanders, Aaron Savio Lobo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Report on occurrence of Yellow Sea Snake Hydrophis spiralis off Kerala coast [PDF]

, 2015
Sea snakes play an important role in the marine food web and studies on their diversity and distribution are very limited in India. Globally, 70 species of sea snakes have been reported under the family Elapidae which is divided into two subfamilies
Bose, John, Jeyabaskaran, R, John, Seban, Kripa, V, Lavanya, S, Prema, D, Vysakhan, P   +6 more
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Slowing taxon cycle can explain biodiversity patterns on islands: Insights into the biogeography of the tropical South Pacific from molecular data

Journal of Systematics and Evolution, Volume 62, Issue 2, Page 201-214, March 2024.
Biodiversity on islands in the tropical South Pacific has mostly originated through recent colonization events less than 5 Mya from the closest source areas. Only the oldest archipelagos diverge from that pattern, having an older biota and lower diversification rates.
Gunnar Keppel, Francis J. Nge, Thomas Ibanez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multilocus assessment of phylogenetic relationships in Alytes (Anura, Alytidae) [PDF]

, 2017
With the advent of large multilocus datasets, molecular systematics is experiencing very rapid progress, but important challenges remain regarding data analysis and interpretation.
Ferrand, Nuno, Gonçalves, Helena, Maia-Carvalho, Bruno, Martínez-Solano, Íñigo   +3 more
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Evaluating the drivers of Indo‐Pacific biodiversity: speciation and dispersal of sea snakes (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae) [PDF]

Journal of Biogeography, 2015
AbstractAimThere are several competing hypotheses to explain the high species richness of the Indo‐Australian Archipelago (IAA) marine biodiversity hotspot centred within Southeast (SE) Asia. We use phylogenetic methods to provide a novel perspective on this problem using viviparous sea snakes, a group with high species richness in the IAA that is ...
Ukuwela, K., Lee, M., Rasmussen, A., de Silva, A., Mumpuni,, Fry, B., Ghezellou, P., Rezaie-Atagholipour, M., Sanders, K.   +8 more
openaire   +2 more sources