A Wolf in Another Wolf’s Clothing: Post-Genomic Regulation Dictates Venom Profiles of Medically-Important Cryptic Kraits in India [PDF]
Toxins, 2021 The Common Krait (Bungarus caeruleus) shares a distribution range with many other ‘phenotypically-similar’ kraits across the Indian subcontinent. Despite several reports of fatal envenomings by other Bungarus species, commercial Indian antivenoms are ...
Ashok Captain +2 more
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Apparent coordinated and communal hunting behaviours by Erabu sea krait Laticauda semifactiata [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Opportunistic observations of Erabu sea kraits (Laticauda semifaciata) provide evidence that this species undertake a novel foraging tactic; coordinated communal hunting.
Ruchira Somaweera +5 more
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Sexual dimorphism in skull size and shape of Laticauda colubrina (Serpentes: Elapidae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Background Sexual dimorphism in size and shape is widespread among squamate reptiles. Sex differences in snake skull size and shape are often accompanied by intersexual feeding niche separation.
Bartosz Borczyk
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Fijian sea krait behavior relates to fine‐scale environmental heterogeneity in old‐growth coastal forest: The importance of integrated land–sea management for protecting amphibious animals [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 The importance of terrestrial coastal ecosystems for maintaining healthy coral reef ecosystems remains understudied. Sea kraits are amphibious snakes that require healthy coral reefs for foraging, but little is known about their requirements of ...
Christopher Lowe +7 more
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Malayan kraits (Bungarus candidus) show affinity to anthropogenic structures in a human dominated landscape [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Animal movement can impact human–wildlife conflict by influencing encounter and detection rates. We assess the movement and space use of the highly venomous and medically important Malayan krait (Bungarus candidus) on a suburban university campus.
Cameron Wesley Hodges +3 more
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Status, Distribution and Threats of Kraits (Squamata: Elapidae: Bungarus) in Bangladesh
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2017 Kraits (Bungarus spp.) of Bangladesh were studied between January 2014 and March 2015. Five species of kraits are known to occur in Bangladesh. These are the Common Krait Bungarus caeruleus, Banded Krait B. fasciatus, Lesser Black Krait B.
Md. Mizanur Rahman
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Return to the sea: Sagaratrema n. g. for the marine Liolopidae (Digenea: Diplostomida) with two new species parasitic in snakes from Sri Lanka [PDF]
ParasitologyThe Liolopidae Dollfus, 1934 is a small family of digenetic trematodes with sexual adults parasitic in aquatic reptiles and amphibians. Liolopids exploiting snakes are constrained to Harmotrema Nicoll, 1914, but the genus includes species with presumably
Manage Lenin Indrajith De Silva +3 more
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Elusive elapids: biogeographic venom variation in Indian kraits and its repercussion on snakebite therapy [PDF]
Frontiers in PharmacologySnakebite is a major public health concern in many parts of the world, including India, where over 58,000 deaths occur annually due to snake envenoming.
U. Rashmi +4 more
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Agonists of melatonin receptors strongly promote the functional recovery from the neuroparalysis induced by neurotoxic snakes. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical DiseasesSnake envenoming is a major, but neglected, tropical disease. Among venomous snakes, those inducing neurotoxicity such as kraits (Bungarus genus) cause a potentially lethal peripheral neuroparalysis with respiratory deficit in a large number of people ...
Giorgia D'Este +8 more
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Bilateral Simultaneous Optic Neuritis Following Envenomations by Indian Cobra and Common Krait
Toxins, 2022 In India, most snakebite envenomation (SBE) incidents are caused by the “Big Four” snakes which include Russell’s viper, common krait, Indian cobra, and saw-scaled viper.
Harry F Williams +2 more
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