Fang evolution in venomous snakes: Adaptation of 3D tooth shape to the biomechanical properties of their prey

Linking tooth shape to strike mechanics in the Boa constrictor

(2021) William G Ryerson et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

What makes a fang? Phylogenetic and ecological controls on tooth evolution in rear-fanged snakes

(2020) Erin P. Westeen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Mechanics of snake biting: Experiments and modelling

(2020) Lakshminath Kundanati et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Sexual dichromatism does not translate into sex‐based difference in morphology or diet for the African boomslang

(2019) C. C. D. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Sexual dichromatisation and sexual differences in hunting behavior and dietary intake in a free-ranging small viperid snake, Cerastes vipera

(2019) Itay Tesler et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

A new, fast method to search for morphological convergence with shape data

(2019) Silvia Castiglione et al.   PLoS One

How big is too big? Using crustacean-eating snakes (Homalopsidae) to test how anatomy and behaviour affect prey size and feeding performance

(2018) Bruce C Jayne et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

RRPP : An r package for fitting linear models to high-dimensional data using residual randomization

(2018) Michael L. Collyer et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Museum Specimens Bias Measures of Snake Diet: A Case Study Using the Ambush-Foraging Puff Adder (Bitis arietans)

(2017) Xavier Glaudas et al.   HERPETOLOGICA

Debunking the viper's strike: harmless snakes kill a common assumption

(2016) David A. Penning et al.   Biology Letters

Venom of the Coral Snake Micrurus clarki: Proteomic Profile, Toxicity, Immunological Cross-Neutralization, and Characterization of a Three-Finger Toxin

(2016) Bruno Lomonte et al.   Toxins

The definition, recognition, and interpretation of convergent evolution, and two new measures for quantifying and assessing the significance of convergence

(2015) C. Tristan Stayton   EVOLUTION

Fixed prey cue preferences among Dusky Pigmy Rattlesnakes (Sistrurus miliarius barbouri) raised on different long-term diets

(2015) Matthew L. Holding et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Comparative Analysis of Principal Components Can be Misleading

(2015) Josef C. Uyeda et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A Generalized K Statistic for Estimating Phylogenetic Signal from Shape and Other High-Dimensional Multivariate Data

(2014) Dean C. Adams   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Multiscale structural gradients enhance the biomechanical functionality of the spider fang

(2014) Benny Bar-On et al.   Nature Communications

A simple measure of the strength of convergent evolution

(2014) Kevin Arbuckle et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes

(2013) R Pyron et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Recent rapid speciation and ecomorph divergence in Indo-Australian sea snakes

(2013) Kate L. Sanders et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The Evolution of Diet and Microhabitat use in Pseudoboine Snakes

(2013) Laura R. V. Alencar et al.   South American Journal of Herpetology

Phylogenetic Insights on Evolutionary Novelties in Lizards and Snakes: Sex, Birth, Bodies, Niches, and Venom

(2011) Jack W. Sites et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Intraspecific ecomorphological variation: linear and geometric morphometrics reveal habitat-related patterns within Podarcis bocagei wall lizards

(2010) A. KALIONTZOPOULOU et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Body size, food habits, reproduction and growth in a population of black whip snakes (Demansia vestigiata) (Serpentes�:�Elapidae) in tropical Australia

(2009) S. Fearn et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Something different for dinner? Responses of a native Australian predator (the keelback snake) to an invasive prey species (the cane toad)

(2009) John Llewelyn et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

On making a snake

(2009) Ariel D. Chipman   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Advances in Geometric Morphometrics

(2009) Philipp Mitteroecker et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Snake Venomics of the Central American RattlesnakeCrotalus simusand the South AmericanCrotalus durissusComplex Points to Neurotoxicity as an Adaptive Paedomorphic Trend alongCrotalusDispersal in South America

(2009) Juan J. Calvete et al.   JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH

Geometric morphometrics: recent applications to the study of evolution and development

(2009) A. M. Lawing et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Coevolution of diet and prey-specific venom activity supports the role of selection in snake venom evolution

(2009) A. Barlow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Functional basis of a molecular adaptation: Prey-specific toxic effects of venom from Sistrurus rattlesnakes

(2009) H. Lisle Gibbs et al.   TOXICON

Body sizes, activity times, food habits and reproduction of brown tree snakes (Boiga irregularis) (Serpentes�:�Colubridae) from tropical north Queensland, Australia

(2008) D. F. Trembath et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Viperous fangs: Development and evolution of the venom canal

(2008) Oldrich Zahradnicek et al.   MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT

A nesting of vipers: Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Viperidae (Squamata: Serpentes)

(2008) Wolfgang Wüster et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION