Snake Venom PLA2, a Promising Target for Broad-Spectrum Antivenom Drug Development. [PDF]
Biomed Res Int, 2017 Snakebite envenomation is a neglected global health problem, causing substantial mortality, disability, and psychological morbidity, especially in rural tropical and subtropical zones. Antivenin is currently the only specific medicine for envenomation. However, it is restricted by cold storage, snakebite diagnosis, and high price.
Xiao H, Pan H, Liao K, Yang M, Huang C.
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Use of stable isotopes to assess the intraspecific foraging niche of males and female colour morphs of the damselfly Enallagma hageni [PDF]
, 2013 Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/102631/1/een12075 ...
Fincke, Ola M. +2 more
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Inventing an arsenal: adaptive evolution and neofunctionalization of snake venom phospholipase A genes [PDF]
, 2007 Background Gene duplication followed by functional divergence has long been hypothesized to be the main source of molecular novelty. Convincing examples of neofunctionalization, however, remain rare.
Lynch Vincent J
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Taxonomic key to the snakes (Squamata: Ophidia) species of the Itajaí Valley, Santa Catarina, Brazil [PDF]
, 2021 Snakes represent the richest Reptile group in Brazil, amounting to 412 species and 40% of them are endemic for the country. This great richness combined with the poor taxonomic knowledge makes the identification a difficult process. To correctly identify
Giasson, Luís Olímpio Menta +1 more
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Locomotor performance of three sympatric species of sea kraits (Laticauda spp.) from Orchid Island, Taiwan [PDF]
, 2013 Background Assuming that locomotion has a strong influence on animals’ fitness, we hypothesized that better locomotor performance would be associated with the most frequently utilized habitat.
Harvey B Lillywhite +2 more
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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]
, 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 ...
Fisher, Robert N. +7 more
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Sexual size dimorphism, diet, and reproduction in the mexican garter snake, Thamnophis eques [PDF]
, 2014 Although adult T. eques females had a longer SVL and HL than males, the sexes did not differ in their diet, and we found that larger females had more offspring. These results suggest that sexual size dimorphism in natural populations of T.
Contreras-Garduno, Jorge +2 more
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Momentarily Excessive Construction As The Basis For Protoadaptation [PDF]
, 1979 Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/137522/1/evo04677 ...
Dobzhansky Th. +9 more
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Prioritising search effort to locate previously unknown populations of endangered marine reptiles [PDF]
, 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 ...
d'Anastasi, Blanche +7 more
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La Serpiente Cascabel Sudamericana Crotalus Durissus: Ecología Alimentar En La Región Central De Brasil [PDF]
, 2017 We investigated food patterns in the diet composition of 452 specimens of Crotalus durissus from Central Brazil. Thirty-three items were recorded corresponding to four categories: rodents (75.76%), marsupials (6.06%), unidentified mammals (9.09%) and ...
Almeida-Santos S.M., Hoyos M.A.
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