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An Overlooked Habitat‐Dependent Link Between Metabolism and Water Loss in Reptiles

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We measured the gas exchange of six lizard and six snake species, under high and low air humidity, and two intriguing patterns emerged. First, although desert species lose less water via evaporation than similar‐sized mesic species under similar conditions, water loss is virtually the same when each is exposed to its natural conditions.
Shahar Dubiner, Shai Meiri, Eran Levin
wiley   +1 more source

High-Throughput Sequencing Reveals Regional Diversification of Cucurbit-Infecting Begomoviruses in Eastern Saudi Arabia. [PDF]

Viruses
Sattar MN, Al Hashedi SA, Almaghasla MI, El-Ganainy SM, Al-Shoaibi AA, Munir M.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Living Low and Dry: Costs of and Resilience to Soil Hydric Stress in a Fossorial Amphisbaenian Reptile

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Soil drought imposes moderate, temporary costs on a strictly fossorial amphisbaenian reptile. However, these animals seem to cope with, at least, moderately short droughts thanks to their peculiar adaptations to living in an underground environment. ABSTRACT The physiological traits of animals can be strongly influenced by climatic fluctuations, and ...
José Martín, Álvaro Navarro‐Castilla, Alejandro de la Concha, José Javier Cuervo, Isabel Barja, Pilar López   +5 more
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Surface Topography and Ultrastructure of the Spectacular Cells in the Eyes of Land and Sea Snakes (Squamata, Reptilia): Functional Adaptations of Micro-Ornamentation. [PDF]

J Morphol
Collin HB, Ha MH, Wagner A, Folwell M, Dunstan N, Crowe-Riddell J, Collin SP.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Updated Chorotypes of Terrestrial Vertebrates Shed New Light on Zoogeographical Regions in China

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Chorotype represents a fundamental concept for identifying groups of species that share similar distribution patterns. However, the last comprehensive revision of animal chorotypes in China was performed more than a decade ago. Here, we update the chorotype classifications for 1040 species and propose an updated zoogeographical regionalization scheme ...
Baoming Zhang, Minghui Zhou, Zhipeng Xie, Ludan Zhang, Haoting Duan, Jiehua Yu, Jiekun He   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Snakebite envenoming in India: it is time we look beyond the concept of the Big Four species. [PDF]

Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg
Menon JC, Sreekrishnan TP, Nair SB, Pillay VV, Kanungo S, Aravind MS, Bharti OK, Joseph JK, Pati S.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Hydrostatin-SN1, a Sea Snake-Derived Bioactive Peptide, Reduces Inflammation in a Mouse Model of Acute Lung Injury. [PDF]

Front Pharmacol, 2017
Wu G, Wang J, Luo P, Li A, Tian S, Jiang H, Zheng Y, Zhu F, Lu Y, Xia Z.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Snake Gut Microbiota as a Source of Anti‐Inflammatory Probiotics: Isolation and Functional Characterization of Two Novel Strains

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This study assessed the probiotic potential of intestinal microbiomes from five snake species using metagenomics and in vitro isolation, identifying two promising strains (Lactobacillus johnsonii DA0116 and Limosilactobacillus reuteri DA0218) through comprehensive screening.
Xuena Kang, Lan Hu, Jiarong Song, Zhenjie Zhang, Yi Li, Qingqing Zhang, Cuiling Luo, Yu Pang, Peng Guo, Bisong Yue, Ping Li, Zhenxin Fan   +11 more
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Local Ecological Knowledge and Cultural Perceptions of Snakes in Sudan. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Baleela RMH, Elamin MEMO, Mohammad A, Saeed SAK.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
wiley   +1 more source