What defines different modes of snake locomotion?

BC Jayne - Integrative and comparative biology, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Animals move in diverse ways, as indicated in part by the wide variety of gaits and modes
that have been described for vertebrate locomotion. Much variation in the gaits of limbed …

[HTML][HTML] Old World Vipers—a review about snake venom proteomics of Viperinae and their variations

M Damm, BF Hempel, RD Süssmuth - Toxins, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Fine-tuned by millions of years of evolution, snake venoms have frightened but also
fascinated humanity and nowadays they constitute potential resources for drug …

Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna

CC Nogueira, AJS Argôlo, V Arzamendia… - South American Journal …, 2019‏ - BioOne
Accurate and detailed species distribution maps are fundamental for documenting and
interpreting biological diversity. For snakes, an ecologically diverse group of reptiles …

[PDF][PDF] Antivenomics and its role in enhancing cobra envenomation treatments: A review of current practices and future prospects

I Karunarathna, K De Alvis, P Gunasena… - 2024‏ - researchgate.net
The King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) holds cultural significance and is one of the most
medically important venomous snakes worldwide. Envenomation by King Cobras often …

Large-scale molecular phylogeny, morphology, divergence-time estimation, and the fossil record of advanced caenophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes)

H Zaher, RW Murphy, JC Arredondo, R Graboski… - PloS one, 2019‏ - journals.plos.org
Caenophidian snakes include the file snake genus Acrochordus and advanced
colubroidean snakes that radiated mainly during the Neogene. Although caenophidian …

Extinction filters mediate the global effects of habitat fragmentation on animals

MG Betts, C Wolf, M Pfeifer, C Banks-Leite… - Science, 2019‏ - science.org
Habitat loss is the primary driver of biodiversity decline worldwide, but the effects of
fragmentation (the spatial arrangement of remaining habitat) are debated. We tested the …

[PDF][PDF] Innovative approaches to neutralizing cobra venom: Advances in antivenomics and recombinant antivenoms

I Karunarathna, K De Alvis, P Gunasena… - 2024‏ - researchgate.net
The King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) holds cultural significance and is one of the most
medically important venomous snakes worldwide. Envenomation by King Cobras often …

The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China

K Wang, J Ren, H Chen, Z Lyu, X Guo… - Biodiversity …, 2020‏ - biodiversity-science.net
We updated the checklists of extant, native amphibians and reptiles of China based on the
previously published checklist of reptiles in 2015, the online checklist of amphibians on the …

Large-scale snake genome analyses provide insights into vertebrate development

C Peng, DD Wu, JL Ren, ZL Peng, Z Ma, W Wu, Y Lv… - Cell, 2023‏ - cell.com
Snakes are a remarkable squamate lineage with unique morphological adaptations,
especially those related to the evolution of vertebrate skeletons, organs, and sensory …

Redefining possible: combining phylogenomic and supersparse data in frogs

DM Portik, JW Streicher, DC Blackburn… - Molecular Biology …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
The data available for reconstructing molecular phylogenies have become wildly disparate.
Phylogenomic studies can generate data for thousands of genetic markers for dozens of …