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Molecular evolution of the infrared sensory gene TRPA1 in snakes and implications for functional studies. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 TRPA1 is a calcium ion channel protein recently identified as the infrared receptor in pit organ-containing snakes. Therefore, understanding the molecular evolution of TRPA1 may help to illuminate the origin of "heat vision" in snakes and reveal the ...
Jie Geng +3 more
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Grass Snakes (Natrix natrix) as a Reservoir of Alaria alata and Other Parasites
Pathogens, 2022 The aim of the study was to investigate the occurrence of Alaria alata (Goeze, 1782) in fifty-one grass snakes (Natrix natrix) collected in Gostynińsko-Włocławski Landscape Park. Each snake was tested for the presence of A.
Aneta Bełcik +9 more
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2017 The Stout Sand Snake Psammophis longifrons Boulenger, 1890 is reported herein based on two live specimens, rescued from Boduppal & Hayathnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana, southern India. This documentation is the first record from the state of Telangana.
Avinash C Visvanathan +2 more
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Fear inoculation among snake experts
BMC Psychiatry, 2021 Background Fear acquisition of certain stimuli, such as snakes, is thought to be rapid, resistant to extinction, and easily transferable onto other similar objects.
Carlos M. Coelho +3 more
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 Ophidiophobia (snake phobia) is one of the most common specific phobias. It has been proposed that specific phobia may have an evolutionary origin, and that attentional bias to specific items may promote the onset of phobia.
Ha Trong Dinh +13 more
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A long-term study of a snake community in north-western Tuscany (central Italy): population structure and density patterns [PDF]
Herpetozoa, 2019 We analysed a snake species community of a Mediterranean 0.2 ha ecotonal area during a 21 year time span, monitoring two colubrid and one viperid snake species.
Federico Storniolo +2 more
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Ultrasonographic characterization of the organs in the middle third and caudal coelomic cavity of snakes in the Boidae Family [PDF]
Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2021 : The aim of this study was the ultrasonographic evaluation of the organs in the middle third and caudal coelomic cavity of healthy snakes in the Boidae family.
Nathana B. Martins +6 more
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Serological Variety and Antimicrobial Resistance in Salmonella Isolated from Reptiles
Biology, 2022 Salmonella enterica is one of the best adapted bacterial pathogens causing infections in a wide variety of vertebrate species. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of Salmonella in different reptile species and to evaluate their ...
Lina Merkevičienė +8 more
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Pliny the Elder and Nicholas of Poland on Snake Products and Their Medical Applications
Clotho, 2023 The paper aims to show how Pliny the Elder, in his Historia Naturalis, and Nicholas of Poland, in Experimenta, the medical treatise attributed to him, presented and described ways of preparing snakes for medical purposes.
Adriana Grzelak-Krzymianowska
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