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Novel Bradykinin-Potentiating Peptides and Three-Finger Toxins from Viper Venom: Combined NGS Venom Gland Transcriptomics and Quantitative Venom Proteomics of the Azemiops feae Viper

Biomedicines, 2020
Feae’s viper Azemipos feae belongs to the Azemiopinae subfamily of the Viperidae family. The effects of Viperidae venoms are mostly coagulopathic with limited neurotoxicity manifested by phospholipases A2. From A.
Vladislav V. Babenko, Rustam H. Ziganshin, Christoph Weise, Igor Dyachenko, Elvira Shaykhutdinova, Arkady N. Murashev, Maxim Zhmak, Vladislav Starkov, Anh Ngoc Hoang, Victor Tsetlin, Yuri Utkin   +10 more
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Ontogenetic and sexual differences in the venom of Bothrops moojeni: insights from a litter and its mother [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Biology
Variability in snake venom composition is well-documented and crucial for understanding snake ecology and predicting snakebites. In this study, we characterize the venom composition and biological activities of newborn female and male Bothrops moojeni ...
S. C. Ferreira-Rodrigues, R. C. C. Silva, M. Trevisan, P. S. M. Rodrigues, T. H. M. Del-Rei, L. F. Sousa, A. R. G. Vilarinho, C. A. Lima, J. L. Rodrigues, M. M. R. Silva, A. M. Moura-da-Silva, S. S. Sant’Anna, C. S. Seibert   +12 more
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Ischemic Stroke Following Calloselasma rhodostoma Snakebite: A Rare Case Report

Open Access Emergency Medicine, 2022
Rizaldy Taslim Pinzon,1,2 Radian Adhiputra Antonius,1 Vanessa Veronica1 1Faculty of Medicine, Duta Wacana Christian University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; 2Department of Neurology, Bethesda Hospital, Yogyakarta, IndonesiaCorrespondence: Rizaldy Taslim ...
Pinzon RT, Antonius RA, Veronica V
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First observation on courtship behavior of short-tailed viper snake, Gloydius saxatilis (Squamata: Viperidae) in Korea

Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2017
Most reptile species have their own mating patterns. Therefore, courtship behaviors are important factors in understanding taxonomic features and species-specific breeding habits in the genus.
Min Seock Do, Ki-Baek Nam, Jeong-Chil Yoo   +2 more
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Divergent Specialization of Simple Venom Gene Profiles among Rear-Fanged Snake Genera (Helicops and Leptodeira, Dipsadinae, Colubridae)

Toxins, 2022
Many venomous animals express toxins that show extraordinary levels of variation both within and among species. In snakes, most studies of venom variation focus on front-fanged species in the families Viperidae and Elapidae, even though rear-fanged ...
Peter A. Cerda, Jenna M. Crowe-Riddell, Deise J. P. Gonçalves, Drew A. Larson, Thomas F. Duda, Alison R. Davis Rabosky   +5 more
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Next-generation sequencing yields the complete mitochondrial genome of the endangered Milos viper Macrovipera schweizeri (Reptilia, Viperidae)

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2018
The Milos viper, Macrovipera schweizeri, is an endangered viperid snake found on four Aegean islands (Greece). Its complete mitochondrial genome, the first reported for the genus Macrovipera, was assembled through next-generation sequencing.
Evanthia Thanou, Panagiotis Kornilios
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Mycoplasma spp. in captive snakes (Boa constrictor and Bothrops atrox) from Brazil [PDF]

Ciência Rural, 2020
: Although rare, mycoplasmas are included among the causes of respiratory diseases in reptiles and, in the order Squamata, three reports of these microorganisms causing diseases in pythons have already been reported.
Barbara Souza Neil Magalhães, Leandro dos Santos Machado, Arthur de Almeida Figueira, Thomas Salles Dias, Thiago de Almeida Feijó, Maria Lucia Barreto, Giulia de Almeida Tuffanelli, Nathalie Costa da Cunha, Elmiro Rosendo do Nascimento, Virginia Léo de Almeida Pereira, Nádia Regina Pereira Almosny   +10 more
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Annotated checklist of semi- venomous and venomous snakes of Iraq [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2016
This study includes a check-list of semi-venomous and venomous snakes in Iraq along with their distribution and classification. Collectively, from the family Clubridae, three genera, and seven species of semi-venomous snakes and from the families ...
Israa Nadhim Habeeb, Rasoul Karamiani, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani   +2 more
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An integrative taxonomic revision of the Trimeresurus popeiorum group of pitvipers (Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperidae) with descriptions of two new species from the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot

Vertebrate zoology
Despite recent progress in our understanding of diversity within the genus Trimeresurus Lacépède, 1804, the subgenus Popeia Malhotra & Thorpe, 2004, distributed across most parts of East and Southeast Asia, remains taxonomically challenging.
S. Idiiatullina, T. Nguyen, Parinya Pawangkhanant, C. Suwannapoom, L. Chanhome, Z. Mirza, P. David, G. Vogel, N. Poyarkov   +8 more
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Viperidae snakes infected by mammalian-associated trypanosomatids and a free-living kinetoplastid.

Infection, Genetics and Evolution
Trypanosomatids have achieved significant evolutionary success in parasitizing various groups, yet reptiles remain relatively unexplored. The utilization of advanced molecular tools has revealed an increased richness of trypanosomatids in vertebrate ...
Wesley Arruda Gimenes Nantes, Sany Caroline Liberal, F. M. Santos, M. A. Dario, Lincoln Takashi Hota Mukoyama, Katrine Berres Woidella, Paula Helena Santa Rita, A. L. R. Roque, C. E. de Oliveira, Heitor Miraglia Herrera, Ana Maria Jansen   +10 more
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