Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

Advances in the last decade combining transcriptomics with established proteomics
methods have made possible rapid identification and quantification of protein families in …

Fine-tuned by millions of years of evolution, snake venoms have frightened but also
fascinated humanity and nowadays they constitute potential resources for drug …

Abstract Background and Aims Throughout the Cenozoic, Africa underwent several climatic
and geological changes impacting the evolution of tropical rain forests (TRFs). African TRFs …

Globally, there is an extensive trade in snakes for pets, especially in the European and North
American markets. This trade includes many African snakes, but few of these are present on …

Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species, published in 2014, was the
first catalogue of its kind and covered all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 …

Members of the snake subfamily Aparallactinae occur in various habitats throughout sub-
Saharan Africa. The monophyly of aparallactine snakes is well established, but relationships …

Aim The expansion of open habitats during the mid‐Miocene has been hypothesized as a
driver of allopatric speciation for many African taxa. This habitat‐dependent mode of …

The tropical rain forests of Central Africa contain high levels of species diversity.
Paleovegetation or biodiversity patterns suggested successive contraction/expansion …

Atractaspidines are poorly studied, fossorial snakes that are found throughout Africa and
western Asia, including the Middle East. We employed concatenated gene-tree analyses …