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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, Česlova Butrimaitė-Ambrozevičienė, Gerardas Paškevičius, Alma Pikūnienė, Marius Virgailis, Jurgita Dailidavičienė, Agila Daukšienė, Rita Šiugždinienė, Modestas Ruzauskas   +8 more
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New locality records of the Stout Sand Snake Psammophis longifrons Boulenger, 1890 (Reptilia: Squamata: Lamprophiidae) in Telangana, India

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, Sandeep Anne, Aditya Kesav Kolli   +2 more
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The oldest known snakes from the Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous provide insights on snake evolution [PDF]

, 2015
The previous oldest known fossil snakes date from ∼100 million year old sediments (Upper Cretaceous) and are both morphologically and phylogenetically diverse, indicating that snakes underwent a much earlier origin and adaptive radiation.
Apesteguía, Sebastián, Caldwell, Michael Wayne, Nydam, Randall L., Palci, Alessandro   +3 more
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A STUDY OF THE DEFENSIVE BEHAVIORS OF FREE-RANGING DEKAY’S BROWNSNAKES, STORERIA DEKAYI (HOLBROOK, 1836) [PDF]

, 2015
The defensive behaviors of free-ranging Dekay’s Brownsnakes, Storeria dekayi, were studied at a site in Erie County, Pennsylvania, USA. Twenty-nine unique sequences of defensive behavior were documented.
Gray, Brian S.
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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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Snake prices and crocodile appetites: Aquatic wildlife supply and demand on Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia [PDF]

, 2010
Commercial trade is a major driver of over-exploitation of wild species, but the pattern of demand and how it responds to changes in supply is poorly understood.
Berkes, Blake, Bonheur, Brashares, Broad, Brooks, Brooks, Brukner, Cheung, Clarke, Courchamp, Cowlishaw, Dickson, Dulvy, East, Edward H. Allison, Fa, Hall, Huitric, Jennifer A. Gill, Jerozolimski, John D. Reynolds, Kroner, Kummu, Lamberts, Lamberts, Lim, MEA, Pinnegar, Revol, Robinson, Rowcliffe, Sharon E. Brooks, Shine, So, Stuart, Stuart, Stuart, Thorbjarnarson, van Mulekom, Wilkie, Wilkie, Wilkie, Yiming, Zhou, Zhou   +45 more
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Apostolepis multicincta Harvey 1999 (Squamata, Dipsadidae) in Argentina [PDF]

Check List, 2017
Apostolepis multicincta, a fossorial snake known only from Bolivia, is recorded in Argentina, extending its known range 450 km south of the previous closest record.
Freddy Burgos Gallardo, Jorge L. Baldo, Américo Vilte, Gustavo Scrocchi   +3 more
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Predictors of orbital convergence in primates: A test of the snake detection hypothesis of primate evolution [PDF]

, 2011
Traditional explanations for the evolution of high orbital convergence and stereoscopic vision in primates have focused on how stereopsis might have aided early primates in foraging or locomoting in an arboreal environment. It has recently been suggested
Alirol, Allman, Araújo, Barros, Barton, Beaupre, Bininda-Emonds, Boinski, Bradley, Brandon C. Wheeler, Brenda J. Bradley, Brown, Burney, Burnham, Campbell, Carbone, Cartmill, Cartmill, Cartmill, Chippaux, Crompton, de Cock Buning, Dorcas, Doyle, Erberle, Faul, Felsenstein, Fitzgerald, Fleagle, Fleagle, Foerster, Forsman, Garland, Greene, Greenwald, Hailey, Harcourt, Hartline, Hartmann, Heesy, Heesy, Heesy, Heesy, Heesy, Hodgson, Hutchinson, Isbell, Isbell, Jason M. Kamilar, Jones, Kamilar, Kamilar, Kamilar, Kamilar, Kirk, Lockwood, Luiselli, Luiselli, Luiselli, Luiselli, Maddison, Martin, Midford, Miller, Morgan, Müller, Nekaris, Nunn, Nunn, Ossi, Ouattara, Perry, Pettigrew, Quinn, Ramakrishnan, Range, Reed, Rogers, Ross, Ross, Ross, Ross, Schall, Schwenk, Shine, Shine, Shine, Skoczylas, Smith, Sokal, Surridge, Sussman, Tan, Tan, Tello, Terribile, Terribile, Towner, van Schaik, Veracini, Wheeler, Wheeler, White, Wright, Wüster, Wüster   +105 more
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Swift-Hohenberg equation with broken reflection symmetry [PDF]

, 2009
The bistable Swift-Hohenberg equation possesses a variety of time-independent spatially localized solutions organized in the so-called snakes-and-ladders structure.
Burke, J., Houghton, S.M., Knobloch, E.
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Analyses of Skin Secretions of Vipera ammodytes (Linnaeus, 1758) (Reptilia: Serpentes), with Focus on the Complex Compounds and Their Possible Role in the Chemical Communication

Molecules, 2020
Snakes rely heavily on chemical cues when foraging, searching for mates, etc. Snakes’ sex attractiveness pheromones comprise mainly heavy, semi-volatile compounds such as ketones.
Kostadin Andonov, Angel Dyugmedzhiev, Simeon Lukanov, Miroslav Slavchev, Emiliya Vacheva, Nikola Stanchev, Georgi Popgeorgiev, Deyan Duhalov, Yurii V. Kornilev, Daniela Nedeltcheva-Antonova, Borislav Naumov   +10 more
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