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Unlocking the potential of snake venom-based molecules against the malaria, Chagas disease, and leishmaniasis triad [PDF]

, 2023
Funding Information: This work received financial support from PT national funds ( FCT/MCTES , Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior) through the project CIRCNA/BRB/0281/2019 .
Aguiar, Luísa, Almeida, José Rafael, Brioschi, Mariana Borges Costa, Cortes, Sofia, Duarte, Denise, Ferreira, Mariana, Gameiro, Paula, Gomes, Ana S. M., Gomes, Paula, Mendes, Bruno, Miguel, Danilo C., Nogueira, Fátima, Salazar-Valenzuela, David, Teixeira, Cátia A. S.   +13 more
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Biogeographic Implications of Biodiversity Shortfalls in a Mid‐Altitude Desert Ecotone of the Arabian Peninsula

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 31, Issue 3, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim Macroscale biodiversity inferences are critical for spatial conservation planning, yet they are affected by the limitations of global datasets and the paucity of genetic data. In this study, we conducted a comprehensive sampling campaign and explored how biodiversity shortfalls impact spatial diversity metrics across a mid‐altitude desert ...
André Vicente Liz, Fulvio Licata, Bárbara Santos, Duarte Vasconcelos Gonçalves, Margareta Lakušić, Myrto Roumelioti, Nina Serén, Pedro Tarroso, Ayman Abdulkareem, Patkó László, José Carlos Brito   +10 more
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Viperidae Oppel 1811

, 2015
FAMILY VIPERIDAE Oppel 1811, 376 (7 genera, 13 species, 3 endemic species). Wallach et al. (2014) credited Gray (1825 [p. 205]) for the Viperidae. Oppel used Viperini in his key to the Ophidii. Agkistrodon Palisot de Beauvois 1799, 381 (2 species) Agkistrodon bilineatus (Günther 1863, 364). Porras et al. (2013), in their revision of A.
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The defensive strike of five species of lanceheads of the genus Bothrops (Viperidae) [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2007
We studied the defensive strike of one species of each of five recognized lineages within the genus Bothrops, namely, B. alternatus, B. jararaca, B. jararacussu, B. moojeni and B. pauloensis. The defensive strike of the studied species was in general similar to that of Crotalus viridis and C.
Araújo, MS., Martins, M.
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Evolution of the eyes of vipers with and without infrared-sensing pit organs [PDF]

, 2019
We examined lens and brille transmittance, photoreceptors, visual pigments, and visual opsin gene sequences of viperid snakes with and without infrared-sensing pit organs. Ocular media transmittance is high in both groups.
Douglas, R. H., Gower, D. J., Grace, M. S., Hart, N. S., Hunt, D. M., Loew, E. R., McLamb, W., Orlov, N., Partridge, J. C., Peichl, L., Sampaio, F. L., Simoes, B. F., Wagner, H. J.   +12 more
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Barcoding and traditional health practitioner perspectives are informative to monitor and conserve frogs and reptiles traded for traditional medicine in urban South Africa

Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 25, Issue 2, February 2025.
Abstract Previous literature suggests that Indigenous cultural practices, specifically traditional medicine, are commonplace among urban communities contrary to the general conception that such practices are restricted to rural societies. We reviewed previous literature for records of herptiles (frog and reptile species) sold by traditional health ...
Fortunate M. Phaka, Edward C. Netherlands, Maarten Van Steenberge, Erik Verheyen, Gontran Sonet, Jean Hugé, Louis H. du Preez, Maarten P. M. Vanhove   +7 more
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Unraveling Biogeographic Boundaries Within the Sierra Madre Oriental, México: An Endemicity Analysis Using a Taxonomically Diverse Dataset

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2025.
We provide boundaries of the Sierra Madre Oriental in Mexico through a multi‐taxa endemicity analysis. ABSTRACT The Sierra Madre Oriental (SMO) is a significant mountain range and one of Mexico's 14 biogeographical provinces. Its delimitation has been debated.
Irene Goyenechea Mayer‐Goyenechea, Gustavo Montiel‐Canales, Juan Márquez, Claudia T. Hornung‐Leoni, Jesús M. Castillo‐Cerón, Norma L. Manríquez‐Morán   +5 more
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Body Size Evolution in Insular Speckled Rattlesnakes (Viperidae: Crotalus mitchellii) [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
Speckled rattlesnakes (Crotalus mitchellii) inhabit multiple islands off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. Two of the 14 known insular populations have been recognized as subspecies based primarily on body size divergence from putative mainland ancestral populations; however, a survey of body size variation from other islands occupied by these ...
Jesse M. Meik, Andre Pires-daSilva, A. Michelle Lawing   +2 more
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In silico identification and characterisation of 17 polymorphic anonymous non-coding sequence markers (ANMs) for red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) [PDF]

, 2015
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Piertney, Stuart B., Wenzel, Marius A
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Optimization of Wetland Environmental DNA Metabarcoding Protocols for Great Lakes Region Herpetofauna

Environmental DNA, Volume 7, Issue 1, January–February 2025.
Characterizing herpetofauna diversity in wetlands is crucial to conserving biodiversity. Many traditional sampling methods may not be able to describe entire communities, but environmental DNA is a tool that can be used to achieve this. Sampling methods for eDNA in wetlands have not previously been well‐described; here we provide recommendations for ...
Olivia M. Ruppert, Jared J. Homola, Jeannette Kanefsky, Alyssa Swinehart, Kim T. Scribner, John D. Robinson   +5 more
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