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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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Oral microbiota of Brazilian captive snakes

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2009
The present work aimed to determine the oral microbiotic composition of snakes from São José do Rio Preto city, São Paulo State, Brazil. Ten snake species, comprising the families Boidae, Colubridae, Elapidae and Viperidae, were submitted to ...
MG Fonseca, WMQ Moreira, KC Cunha, ACMG Ribeiro, MTG Almeida   +4 more
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Caracterización toxinológica del veneno total de la serpiente de cascabel crotalus durissus cumanenses (viperidae), presente en la localidad de porshoure, guajira venezolana

Revista Científica, 2010
En el presente trabajo se caracterizó toxinológicamente el veneno total de la serpiente de cascabel Crotalus durissus cumanenses presente en la localidad de Porshoure, Guajira venezolana, determinando: dosis letal cincuenta (DL50), actividad hemorrágica,
Rafael del Carmen Pirela De las Salas, Juan Carlos López Jonsthon, Jim Lenrry Hernández Rangel   +2 more
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Amphibia and Reptilia, Quebrada de los Cuervos, Departamento de Treinta y Tres, Uruguay [PDF]

Check List, 2011
We present an annotated list of the herpetofauna at the Protected Area Quebrada de los Cuervos, Departamento de Treinta y Tres, Uruguay. We recorded 24 species of amphibians and 29 of reptiles, accounting for near half of the species already reported ...
Carlos Prigioni, Claudio Borteiro, Francisco Kolenc   +2 more
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The development of the skull of the Egyptian cobra Naja h. haje (Squamata: Serpentes: Elapidae) [PDF]

, 2015
Background: The study of craniofacial development is important in understanding the ontogenetic processes behind morphological diversity. A complete morphological description of the embryonic skull development of the Egyptian cobra, Naja h.
Evans, SE, Khannoon, ER
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Snakes from the Atlantic Rainforest area of Serra do Mendanha, in Rio de Janeiro state, southeastern Brazil: a first approximation to the taxocenosis composition

Brazilian Journal of Biology
We studied the species composition of the snake community of Serra do Mendanha, in Rio de Janeiro state, Southeastern Brazil, with an effort of 800 hours/man in different habitats, including undisturbed forest, secondary forest, areas under regeneration,
JAL. Pontes, JP. Figueiredo, RC. Pontes, CFD. Rocha   +3 more
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Comportamiento clínico, epidemiológico y uso de suero antiofídico BIOL, en el manejo de accidentes ofídico en hospitales de Chontales, Rio San Juan, Matagalpa y Jinotega, en el período de Enero a Agosto de 2013 [PDF]

, 2014
Las mordeduras por serpientes constituyen algunas de las urgencias más importantes que se atienden en las unidades de salud de Nicaragua, el tratamiento clave para este tipo de lesiones es el suero antiofídico.
Acevedo Benítez, Eduardo D., Chávez José, José H.   +1 more
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Cumplimiento del protocolo para el manejo de intoxicaciones agudas por mordedura de serpiente en pacientes atendidos en el Hospital Victoria Motta-Jinotega, 2014-2015 [PDF]

, 2017
Según la OMS hasta cinco millones de personas sufren cada año mordeduras de serpiente. Para Latinoamérica se estiman 150,000 accidentes ofídicos y la muerte de 5,000 personas por esta causa (León, 2014).
Díaz Estrada, Adonis Francisco, Zelaya Rocha, Marcela Priscila   +1 more
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Composição e história natural das serpentes de Cerrado de Itirapina, São Paulo, sudeste do Brasil [PDF]

, 2008
Neotropical snake assemblages present high species richness and complex structures. The Cerrado is the second largest biome in Brazil, and was included among the 25 World's biodiversity hotspots.
MARQUES, Otavio Augusto Vuolo, MARTINS, Marcio, SAWAYA, Ricardo Jannini   +2 more
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Morphology of the snake spectacle reflects its evolutionary adaptation and development

BMC Veterinary Research, 2017
Background Covering the eye of all snakes is a transparent integumental structure known as the spectacle. In order to determine variations in spectacle thickness among species, the spectacles of 217 alcohol-preserved museum specimens of 44 species ...
Mari-Ann Otkjaer Da Silva, Steffen Heegaard, Tobias Wang, Jacob Thorup Gade, Christian Damsgaard, Mads Frost Bertelsen   +5 more
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