Plicidentine and the repeated origins of snake venom fangs

The iliosacral joint in lizards: an osteological and histological analysis

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

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Novel vascular plexus in the head of a sea snake (Elapidae, Hydrophiinae) revealed by high-resolution computed tomography and histology

(2019) Alessandro Palci et al.   Royal Society Open Science

The scaling of bite force and constriction pressure in kingsnakes (Lampropeltis getula): Proximate determinants and correlated performance

(2017) David A. PENNING   Integrative Zoology

Mosasaurs and snakes have a periodontal ligament: timing and extent of calcification, not tissue complexity, determines tooth attachment mode in reptiles

(2017) Aaron R. H. LeBlanc et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Chemical and mechanical properties of snake fangs

(2016) Ludwig Jansen van Vuuren et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

Combining phylogenomic and supermatrix approaches, and a time-calibrated phylogeny for squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) based on 52 genes and 4162 species

(2016) Yuchi Zheng et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A Species-Level Phylogeny of Extant Snakes with Description of a New Colubrid Subfamily and Genus

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Presence of plicidentine in the oral teeth of the coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae Smith 1939 (Sarcopterygii; Actinistia)

(2015) F.J. Meunier et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Presence of plicidentine in the labial teeth ofHoplias aimara(Erythrinidae; Ostariophysi; Teleostei)

(2014) François J. Meunier et al.   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

First record of plicidentine in Synapsida and patterns of tooth root shape change in Early Permian sphenacodontians

(2014) Kirstin S. Brink et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Plicidentine in the Early Permian Parareptile Colobomycter pholeter, and Its Phylogenetic and Functional Significance among Coeval Members of the Clade

(2014) Mark J. MacDougall et al.   PLoS One

New Materials ofEstesia mongoliensis(Squamata: Anguimorpha) and the Evolution of Venom Grooves in Lizards

(2013) Hong-Yu Yi et al.   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

Non-front-fanged colubroid snakes: A current evidence-based analysis of medical significance

(2013) Scott A. Weinstein et al.   TOXICON

Tooth development in a model reptile: functional and null generation teeth in the gecko Paroedura picta

(2012) Oldrich Zahradnicek et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Histology of tooth attachment tissues and plicidentine in Varanus (Reptilia: Squamata), and a discussion of the evolution of amniote tooth attachment

(2011) Erin E. Maxwell et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

The structure and phylogenetic distribution of amniote plicidentine

(2011) Erin E. Maxwell et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Functional and Structural Diversification of the Anguimorpha Lizard Venom System

(2010) Bryan G. Fry et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

Requirements for comparing the performance of finite element models of biological structures

(2008) E.R. Dumont et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Viperous fangs: Development and evolution of the venom canal

(2008) Oldrich Zahradnicek et al.   MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT

Evolutionary origin and development of snake fangs

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