Resistance Is not futile: widespread convergent evolution of resistance to alpha-neurotoxic snake venoms in caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona)

M Mancuso, S Zaman, ST Maddock, RG Kamei… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Predatory innovations impose reciprocal selection pressures upon prey. The evolution of
snake venom alpha-neurotoxins has triggered the corresponding evolution of resistance in …

Arsenic and metal levels in snake tissues from Lagoa Santa Karst, Brazil

FM Quintela, PG Costa, A Bianchini - Environmental Science and …, 2024 - Springer
Concentrations of one metalloid (As) and eight metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn)
were determined in tissues (muscle, liver, and kidney) of eight snake species (Bothrops …

[PDF][PDF] “In living color”: predation by the coralsnake Micrurus surinamensis (Cuvier, 1816) (Serpentes: Elapidae) on a knifefish in the eastern Amazon, Brazil

R Tavares-Pinheiro, FS Melo, VAMB de Figueiredo… - Herpetology …, 2021 - biotaxa.org
–Rodríguez et al., 2018; M. corallinus–Marques and Sazima, 1997; Banci et al., 2017; M.
dissoleucus–Arévalo-Páez et al., 2015; M. frontalis–Maffei et al., 2009; Marques et al., 2017; …

[PDF][PDF] Herpetofauna of Marechal Newton Cavalcanti instruction Center, a hotspot Atlantic Forest fragment in Pernambuco, north-eastern Brazil

LPC Oitaven, DSB Barros-Filho… - Amphib Reptile …, 2021 - researchgate.net
Determining the richness and composition of species in an area provides indispensable
information for understanding their natural history, habitat requirements, and other …

[PDF][PDF] Kleptoparasitism in Micrurus mipartitus (Squamata, Elapidae) competing for the same Caecilia sp.(Gymnophiona, Caeciliidae) in western Colombia

H Bringsøe, NP Dreyer - Herpetozoa, 2024 - herpetozoa.pensoft.net
Kleptoparasitism, or food theft, is seldom reported in wild populations of snakes. Here, we
describe as case where two Red-tailed Coral Snakes, Micrurus mipartitus, were observed …

[PDF][PDF] First record of predation by the Western Indigo Snake, Drymarchon corais (Boie, 1827), on the South American Coralsnake, Micrurus lemniscatus (Linnaeus …

ALG Nogueira, APB Fernandes, GV Osowski… - Herpetology …, 2024 - biotaxa.org
Figure 1. Map of Paranaíta Municipality (red outline), in Mato Grosso State, Brazil, where
Drymarchon corais was observed preying on Micrurus lemniscatus. The specific locality is …

FIRST PREDATION RECORD ON A CAECILIAN, Caecilia sp.(GYMNOPHIONA: CAECILIIDAE), BY THE POORLY KNOWN CAUCA CORALSNAKE, Micrurus …

FB Ocampo, TR Forrester - Revista Latinoamericana de … - herpetologia.fciencias.unam.mx
Reportamos el primer registro de dieta para la Coral caucana Micrurus multiscutatus,
depredando una cecilia del género Caecilia en tierras bajas del pacífico de Colombia …