Promoting co-existence between humans and venomous snakes through increasing the herpetological knowledge base

Make like a glass frog: In support of increased transparency in herpetology

(2021) Benjamin Michael Marshall   HERPETOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Convergent evolution of pain-inducing defensive venom components in spitting cobras

(2021) T. D. Kazandjian et al.   SCIENCE

Integrating human behavior and snake ecology with agent-based models to predict snakebite in high risk landscapes

(2021) Eyal Goldstein et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Venomous snakebites: Rapid action saves lives—A multifaceted community education programme increases awareness about snakes and snakebites among the rural population of Tamil Nadu, India

(2021) Stephen Paul Samuel et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Crowdsourcing snake identification with online communities of professional herpetologists and avocational snake enthusiasts

(2021) A. M. Durso et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Satellite tracking of rehabilitated sea turtles suggests a high rate of short-term survival following release

(2021) David P. Robinson et al.   PLoS One

Biogeographical venom variation in the Indian spectacled cobra (Naja naja) underscores the pressing need for pan-India efficacious snakebite therapy

(2021) R. R. Senji Laxme et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Proximity between humans and a highly medically significant snake, Russell’s viper, in a tropical rural community

(2021) Xavier Glaudas   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Phylogenetically diverse diets favor more complex venoms in North American pitvipers

(2021) Matthew L. Holding et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lots of movement, little progress: a review of reptile home range literature

(2021) Matthew Crane et al.   PeerJ

Food Spectrum of Common Kraits (Bungarus caeruleus): An Implication for Snakebite Prevention and Snake Conservation

(2020) Deb P. Pandey et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Focus on snake ecology to fight snakebite

(2020) Kris A Murray et al.   LANCET

Identifying the snake: First scoping review on practices of communities and healthcare providers confronted with snakebite across the world

(2020) Isabelle Bolon et al.   PLoS One

Diet Breadth Mediates the Prey Specificity of Venom Potency in Snakes

(2020) Keith Lyons et al.   Toxins

Use of visual surveys and radiotelemetry reveals sources of detection bias for a cryptic snake at low densities

(2020) Scott M. Boback et al.   Ecosphere

Fangs for the Memories? A Survey of Pain in Snakebite Patients Does Not Support a Strong Role for Defense in the Evolution of Snake Venom Composition

(2020) Harry Ward-Smith et al.   Toxins

An Appetite for Destruction: Detecting Prey-Selective Binding of α-Neurotoxins in the Venom of Afro-Asian Elapids

(2020) Richard J. Harris et al.   Toxins

Causes and Consequences of Snake Venom Variation

(2020) Nicholas R. Casewell et al.   TRENDS IN PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A pan-specific antiserum produced by a novel immunization strategy shows a high spectrum of neutralization against neurotoxic snake venoms

(2020) Kavi Ratanabanangkoon et al.   Scientific Reports

Trends in snakebite deaths in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study

(2020) Wilson Suraweera et al.   eLife

Sharing for science: high-resolution trophic interactions revealed rapidly by social media

(2020) Robin A. Maritz et al.   PeerJ

Applying species distribution models in public health research by predicting snakebite risk using venomous snakes’ habitat suitability as an indicating factor

(2020) Masoud Yousefi et al.   Scientific Reports

A therapeutic combination of two small molecule toxin inhibitors provides broad preclinical efficacy against viper snakebite

(2020) Laura-Oana Albulescu et al.   Nature Communications

Snake venom potency and yield are associated with prey-evolution, predator metabolism and habitat structure

(2019) Kevin Healy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The timing is right to end snakebite deaths in South Asia

(2019) Ravikar Ralph et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Strategy for a globally coordinated response to a priority neglected tropical disease: Snakebite envenoming

(2019) David J. Williams et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

When one phenotype is not enough: divergent evolutionary trajectories govern venom variation in a widespread rattlesnake species

(2019) Giulia Zancolli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Foraging mode, relative prey size and diet breadth: A phylogenetically explicit analysis of snake feeding ecology

(2019) Xavier Glaudas et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Reproductive and feeding biology of the common lancehead Bothrops atrox (Serpentes, Viperidae) from central and southwestern Brazilian Amazonia

(2019) Pedro Ferreira BISNETO et al.   ACTA AMAZONICA

Movement Ecology of Northern Pacific Rattlesnakes (Crotalus o. oreganus) in Response to Disturbance

(2019) Emily Lomas et al.   HERPETOLOGICA

Epidemiology, ecology and human perceptions of snakebites in a savanna community of northern Ghana

(2019) Yahaya Musah et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

High snakebite underreporting rate in the Centre Region of Cameroon: an observational study

(2019) Désiré Tchoffo et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Phylovenomics of Daboia russelii across the Indian subcontinent. Bioactivities and comparative in vivo neutralization and in vitro third-generation antivenomics of antivenoms against venoms from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

(2019) Davinia Pla et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Engineering and design considerations for next-generation snakebite antivenoms

(2019) Cecilie Knudsen et al.   TOXICON

Snakebite and its impact in rural communities: The need for a One Health approach

(2019) Sara Babo Martins et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Migration and disturbance: impact of fencing and development on Western Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus) spring movements in British Columbia

(2019) Jared R. Maida et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Snakebite in domestic animals: First global scoping review

(2019) Isabelle Bolon et al.   PREVENTIVE VETERINARY MEDICINE

Horse immunization with short-chain consensus α-neurotoxin generates antibodies against broad spectrum of elapid venomous species

(2019) Guillermo de la Rosa et al.   Nature Communications

Accumulating evidence in ecology: Once is not enough

(2019) James D. Nichols et al.   Ecology and Evolution

A Taxon-Specific and High-Throughput Method for Measuring Ligand Binding to Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors

(2019) Christina N. Zdenek et al.   Toxins

A comparison of wildlife value orientations and attitudes toward timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus)

(2019) Lindsay S. Keener-Eck et al.   HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF WILDLIFE

Habitat requirements of an arboreal Australian snake (Hoplocephalus bitorquatus) are influenced by hollow abundance in living trees

(2019) Michael B. Shelton et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Estimating snakebite incidence from mathematical models: A test in Costa Rica

(2019) Carlos A. Bravo-Vega et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Coevolution of Snake Venom Toxic Activities and Diet: Evidence that Ecological Generalism Favours Toxicological Diversity

(2019) Emma-Louise Davies et al.   Toxins

Conservation and the 4 Rs, which are rescue, rehabilitation, release, and research

(2018) Graham H. Pyke et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Delineation of groundwater potential zone for sustainable development: A case study from Ganga Alluvial Plain covering Hooghly district of India using remote sensing, geographic information system and analytic hierarchy process

(2018) Suman Patra et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Vulnerability to snakebite envenoming: a global mapping of hotspots

(2018) Joshua Longbottom et al.   LANCET

Mortality due to snakebite and other venomous animals in the Indian state of Bihar: Findings from a representative mortality study

(2018) Rakhi Dandona et al.   PLoS One

The importance of species: Pygmy rattlesnake venom toxicity differs between native prey and related non-native species

(2018) Sarah A. Smiley-Walters et al.   TOXICON

Impacts of translocation on a large urban-adapted venomous snake

(2018) Ashleigh K. Wolfe et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Do community metrics vary in reptile communities from Niger Delta forests subjected to slash-and-burn agricultural practices?

(2018) Godfrey C. Akani et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Compensation payments, procedures and policies towards human-wildlife conflict management: Insights from India

(2018) Krithi K. Karanth et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Global drivers of population density in terrestrial vertebrates

(2018) Luca Santini et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evaluating temporal patterns of snakebite in Sri Lanka: the potential for higher snakebite burdens with climate change

(2018) Dileepa Senajith Ediriweera et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Adaptive evolution of distinct prey-specific toxin genes in rear-fanged snake venom

(2018) Cassandra M. Modahl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Behavioral differences following ingestion of large meals and consequences for management of a harmful invasive snake: A field experiment

(2018) Shane R. Siers et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Krait envenomation in Thailand

(2018) Achara Tongpoo et al.   Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Climate change impacts on the distribution of venomous snakes and snakebite risk in Mozambique

(2018) Daniel Zacarias et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Tipping the Scales: The Migration–Selection Balance Leans toward Selection in Snake Venoms

(2018) Mark J Margres et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Snakebite Mitigation Project of the Madras Crocodile Bank/Centre for Herpetology, India: background and a brief summary of activities

(2018) Romulus Whitaker   TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Coagulotoxicity of Bothrops (Lancehead Pit-Vipers) Venoms from Brazil: Differential Biochemistry and Antivenom Efficacy Resulting from Prey-Driven Venom Variation

(2018) Leijiane Sousa et al.   Toxins

Coagulotoxic Cobras: Clinical Implications of Strong Anticoagulant Actions of African Spitting Naja Venoms That Are Not Neutralised by Antivenom but Are by LY315920 (Varespladib)

(2018) Mátyás A. Bittenbinder et al.   Toxins

Spatial ecology and multi-scale habitat selection of the Copperhead ( Agkistrodon contortrix ) in a managed forest landscape

(2017) William B. Sutton et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Venomics of Bungarus caeruleus (Indian krait): Comparable venom profiles, variable immunoreactivities among specimens from Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan

(2017) Angeline Mei Feng Oh et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Snakebite envenomation turns again into a neglected tropical disease!

(2017) Jean-Philippe Chippaux   JOURNAL OF VENOMOUS ANIMALS AND TOXINS INCLUDING TROPICAL DISEASES

Lys49 myotoxin from the Brazilian lancehead pit viper elicits pain through regulated ATP release

(2017) Chuchu Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

When is overkill optimal? Tritrophic interactions reveal new insights into venom evolution

(2017) Alex N. Gangur et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Differential procoagulant effects of saw-scaled viper (Serpentes: Viperidae: Echis ) snake venoms on human plasma and the narrow taxonomic ranges of antivenom efficacies

(2017) Aymeric Rogalski et al.   TOXICOLOGY LETTERS

Coevolution takes the sting out of it: Evolutionary biology and mechanisms of toxin resistance in animals

(2017) Kevin Arbuckle et al.   TOXICON

Mitigation reduces road mortality of a threatened rattlesnake

(2017) Michael Colley et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

The socio-economic burden of snakebite in Sri Lanka

(2017) Anuradhani Kasturiratne et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Prevention of krait bites by sleeping above ground: preliminary results from an observational pilot study

(2017) Chaturaka Rodrigo et al.   Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology

Snakebite envenoming

(2017) José María Gutiérrez et al.   Nature Reviews Disease Primers

The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

(2017) Uri Roll et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

No single solution: application of behavioural principles in mitigating human–wildlife conflict

(2016) Bradley F. Blackwell et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Agriculture and snakebite in Bahia, Brazil – An ecological study

(2016) Yukari Mise et al.   ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE

Targeting human fear of large carnivores — Many ideas but few known effects

(2016) Maria Johansson et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Is long-distance translocation an effective mitigation tool for white-lipped pit vipers ( Trimeresurus albolabris ) in South China?

(2016) Anne Devan-Song et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Effects of long distance translocation on corticosterone and testosterone levels in male rattlesnakes

(2016) Kory H. Heiken et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

The Foraging Behavior of Free-ranging Rattlesnakes (Crotalus oreganus) in California Ground Squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi) Colonies

(2016) Breanna J. Putman et al.   HERPETOLOGICA

No drought about it: Effects of supplemental hydration on the ecology, behavior, and physiology of free-ranging rattlesnakes

(2016) Griffin D. Capehart et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Coevolution of venom function and venom resistance in a rattlesnake predator and its squirrel prey

(2016) Matthew L. Holding et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Public perceptions of snakes and snakebite management: implications for conservation and human health in southern Nepal

(2016) Deb Prasad Pandey et al.   Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Mapping current and future potential snakebite risk in the new world

(2015) Carlos Yañez-Arenas et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Unveiling the nature of black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) venom through venomics and antivenom immunoprofiling: Identification of key toxin targets for antivenom development

(2015) Andreas H. Laustsen et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Snakebites are associated with poverty, weather fluctuations, and El Nino

(2015) L. F. Chaves et al.   Science Advances

Mitigating Reptile Road Mortality: Fence Failures Compromise Ecopassage Effectiveness

(2015) James H. Baxter-Gilbert et al.   PLoS One

Problems with mitigation translocation of herpetofauna

(2014) Brian K. Sullivan et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Habitat Selection by Bothrops atrox (Serpentes: Viperidae) in Central Amazonia, Brazil

(2014) Rafael de Fraga et al.   COPEIA

Physiological and Behavioral Effects of Repeated Handling and Short-Distance Translocations on Free-Ranging Northern Pacific Rattlesnakes (Crotalus oreganus oreganus)

(2014) Matthew L. Holding et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

The Use of Ecological Niche Modeling to Infer Potential Risk Areas of Snakebite in the Mexican State of Veracruz

(2014) Carlos Yañez-Arenas et al.   PLoS One

Medically important differences in snake venom composition are dictated by distinct postgenomic mechanisms

(2014) N. R. Casewell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Integrated “omics” profiling indicates that miRNAs are modulators of the ontogenetic venom composition shift in the Central American rattlesnake, Crotalus simus simus

(2013) Jordi Durban et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Venomous snakes and climate change: ophidism as a dynamic problem

(2013) Javier Nori et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Effects of Temperature, Moon Phase, and Prey on Nocturnal Activity in Ratsnakes: An Automated Telemetry Study

(2013) Jinelle H. Sperry et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Venomics of New World pit vipers: Genus-wide comparisons of venom proteomes across Agkistrodon

(2013) Bruno Lomonte et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Correlation between annual activity patterns of venomous snakes and rural people in the Niger Delta, southern Nigeria

(2013) Godfrey C Akani et al.   JOURNAL OF VENOMOUS ANIMALS AND TOXINS INCLUDING TROPICAL DISEASES

Stranding of Spawning Run Green Sturgeon in the Sacramento River: Post-Rescue Movements and Potential Population-Level Effects

(2013) Michael J. Thomas et al.   NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES MANAGEMENT

Snakebite and Its Socio-Economic Impact on the Rural Population of Tamil Nadu, India

(2013) Sakthivel Vaiyapuri et al.   PLoS One

Mathematical modeling of infectious disease dynamics

(2013) Constantinos I. Siettos et al.   Virulence

Using Geographical Information Systems to Identify Populations in Need of Improved Accessibility to Antivenom Treatment for Snakebite Envenoming in Costa Rica

(2013) Erik Hansson et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Using Occupancy Models to Examine Human–Wildlife Interactions

(2013) Jayme L. Waldron et al.   HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF WILDLIFE

Behavioural responses of wildlife to urban environments

(2012) Hélène Lowry et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Inadequacy of Present Polyspecific Anti Snakevenom— A Study from Central Kerala

(2011) Veerendra Kumar et al.   INDIAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS

Ending the drought: New strategies for improving the flow of affordable, effective antivenoms in Asia and Africa

(2011) David J. Williams et al.   Journal of Proteomics

A heteromeric Texas coral snake toxin targets acid-sensing ion channels to produce pain

(2011) Christopher J. Bohlen et al.   NATURE

Predation on livestock by large carnivores in the tropical lowlands of Guatemala

(2011) José R. Soto-Shoender et al.   ORYX

Venom lethality and diet: Differential responses of natural prey and model organisms to the venom of the saw-scaled vipers (Echis)

(2011) D.P. Richards et al.   TOXICON

Snakebite Mortality in India: A Nationally Representative Mortality Survey

(2011) Bijayeeni Mohapatra et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Snake bite

(2010) David A Warrell   LANCET

Modeling Transmission Dynamics and Control of Vector-Borne Neglected Tropical Diseases

(2010) Paula M. Luz et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Snake Bite in South Asia: A Review

(2010) Emilie Alirol et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Effectiveness of Short-Distance Translocation and its Effects on Western Rattlesnakes

(2009) Jeffery R. Brown et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

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

Natural history of the terciopelo Bothrops asper (Serpentes: Viperidae) in Costa Rica

(2009) Mahmood Sasa et al.   TOXICON

Snake Envenoming: A Disease of Poverty

(2009) Robert A. Harrison et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Activity Patterns of a Neotropical Ambush Predator: Spatial Ecology of the Fer-de-lance (Bothrops asper, Serpentes: Viperidae) in Costa Rica

(2008) Dennis K. Wasko et al.   BIOTROPICA

Snakebite envenoming in Kerala, South India: clinical profile and factors involved in adverse outcomes

(2008) N Suchithra et al.   EMERGENCY MEDICINE JOURNAL

Irditoxin, a novel covalently linked heterodimeric three-finger toxin with high taxon-specific neurotoxicity

(2008) Joanna Pawlak et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

The Global Burden of Snakebite: A Literature Analysis and Modelling Based on Regional Estimates of Envenoming and Deaths

(2008) Anuradhani Kasturiratne et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Community structure and ecology of snakes in fields of oil palm trees (Elaeis guineensis) in the Niger Delta, southern Nigeria

(2007) Godfrey C. Akani et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY