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Toxins, 2018 Snakebite is a global tropical disease that has long had huge implications for human health and well-being. Despite its long-standing medical importance, it has been the most neglected of tropical diseases.
Mátyás A. Bittenbinder +7 more
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Watch out Venomous Snake Species: A Solution to SnakeCLEF2023 [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The SnakeCLEF2023 competition aims to the development of advanced algorithms for snake species identification through the analysis of images and accompanying metadata. This paper presents a method leveraging utilization of both images and metadata. Modern CNN models and strong data augmentation are utilized to learn better representation of images.
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Quo Vadis Venomics? A Roadmap to Neglected Venomous Invertebrates [PDF]
Toxins, 2014 Venomics research is being revolutionized by the increased use of sensitive -omics techniques to identify venom toxins and their transcripts in both well studied and neglected venomous taxa. The study of neglected venomous taxa is necessary both for understanding the full diversity of venom systems that have evolved in the animal kingdom, and to ...
Bjoern Marcus von Reumont +2 more
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Identification of key genes and microRNAs involved in the Androctonus Crassicauda apoptosis pathway [PDF]
مجله بیوتکنولوژی کشاورزی, 2021 Objective The occurrence of planned cell death or apoptosis as a protected method is controlled by a number of genes that used to remove unnecessary cells. This cellular event is involved in immune and disease-related systems.
Fatemeh Salabi +3 more
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Are ticks venomous animals? [PDF]
Frontiers in Zoology, 2014 As an ecological adaptation venoms have evolved independently in several species of Metazoa. As haematophagous arthropods ticks are mainly considered as ectoparasites due to directly feeding on the skin of animal hosts. Ticks are of major importance since they serve as vectors for several diseases affecting humans and livestock animals.
Cabezas Cruz, Alejandro +1 more
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Toxins, 2016 There is limited information on the cross-neutralisation of neurotoxic venoms with antivenoms. Cross-neutralisation of the in vitro neurotoxicity of four Asian and four Australian snake venoms, four post-synaptic neurotoxins (α-bungarotoxin, α-elapitoxin-
Anjana Silva +2 more
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Ecosphere, 2022 The noble false widow spider Steatoda nobilis continues to expand its range globally with possible implications for public health and native species. Of the European Union list of 66 species of invasive plants and animals, none are spiders. S. nobilis is
John P. Dunbar +4 more
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Venom Down Under: Dynamic Evolution of Australian Elapid Snake Toxins
Toxins, 2013 Despite the unparalleled diversity of venomous snakes in Australia, research has concentrated on a handful of medically significant species and even of these very few toxins have been fully sequenced.
Timothy N. W. Jackson +9 more
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Initiative Defense against Facial Manipulation [PDF]
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
35(2), 1619-1627, 2021, 2021 Benefiting from the development of generative adversarial networks (GAN), facial manipulation has achieved significant progress in both academia and industry recently. It inspires an increasing number of entertainment applications but also incurs severe threats to individual privacy and even political security meanwhile.
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