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The conserved structure of snake venom toxins confers extensive immunological cross-reactivity to toxin-specific antibody by Harrison, R.A., Wüster, W., Theakston, R.D.G.

“…We have demonstrated previously that antisera from mice immunised with DNA encoding the carboxy-terminal domain (JD9) of a potent haemorrhagic…”
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Crowdsourcing snake identification with online communities of professional herpetologists and avocational snake enthusiasts by Durso, A M, Bolon, I, Kleinhesselink, A R, Mondardini, M R, Fernandez-Marquez, J L, Gutsche-Jones, F, Gwilliams, C, Tanner, M, Smith, C E, Wüster, W, Grey, F, Ruiz de Castañeda, R

“…Species identification can be challenging for biologists, healthcare practitioners and members of the general public. Snakes are no exception, and the…”
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What's your poison? by Wuester, W

“…The paper of Ma et al. (2009), in which they investigated the venom gland transcriptome of the scorpion Scorpiops jendeki, yielding a new database of 871…”
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Diet and snake venom evolution by Daltry, Jennifer C, Wüster, Wolfgang, Thorpe, Roger S

“…Venom composition within snake species can show considerable geographical variation, an important consideration because bites by conspecific populations may…”
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Venom lethality and diet: Differential responses of natural prey and model organisms to the venom of the saw-scaled vipers (Echis) by Richards, D.P., Barlow, A., Wüster, W.

“…The composition of snake venoms shows a high degree of variation at all taxonomic levels, and natural selection for diet has been implicated as a potential…”
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Assembling an arsenal: origin and evolution of the snake venom proteome inferred from phylogenetic analysis of toxin sequences by Fry, B G, Wüster, W

“…We analyzed the origin and evolution of snake venom toxin families represented in both viperid and elapid snakes by means of phylogenetic analysis of the amino…”
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Destruction of the collection of reptiles and arthropods at Butantan Institute: a view from the United Kingdom by Warrell, DA, Theakston, RDG, Wüster, W

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Domain loss facilitates accelerated evolution and neofunctionalization of duplicate snake venom metalloproteinase toxin genes by Casewell, Nicholas R, Wagstaff, Simon C, Harrison, Robert A, Renjifo, Camila, Wüster, Wolfgang

“…Gene duplication is a key mechanism for the adaptive evolution and neofunctionalization of gene families. Large multigene families often exhibit complex…”
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Venom Complexity in a Pitviper Produced by Facultative Parthenogenesis by Calvete, J. J., Casewell, N. R., Hernández-Guzmán, U., Quesada-Bernat, S., Sanz, L., Rokyta, D. R., Storey, D., Albulescu, L.-O., Wüster, W., Smith, C. F., Schuett, G. W., Booth, W.

“…Facultative parthenogenesis (FP) is asexual reproduction in plant and animal species that would otherwise reproduce sexually. This process in vertebrates…”
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Molecular evolution and phylogeny of elapid snake venom three-finger toxins by Fry, B G, Wüster, W, Kini, R M, Brusic, V, Khan, A, Venkataraman, D, Rooney, A P

“…Animal venom components are of considerable interest to researchers across a wide variety of disciplines, including molecular biology, biochemistry, medicine,…”
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Evidence that humidity influences snake activity patterns: a field study of the Malayan pit viper Calloselasma rhodostoma by Daltry, Jennifer C., Ross, Toby, Thorpe, Roger S., Wüster, Wolfgang

“…Multivariate statistical methods were used to elucidate which environmental factors influence the activity patterns of free-living Malayan pit vipers,…”
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Synopsis of recent developments in venomous snake systematics by Wüster, Wolfgang, Golay, Philippe, Warrell, David A.

“…Changes to our understanding of venomous snake systematics, and the consequent changes in the nomenclature of these animals, have traditionally been a great…”
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Light-coupled cryogenic probes to detect low-micromolar samples and allow for an automated NMR platform by Wüster, Wolf, Gebbers, Pit, Renn, Alois, Bütikofer, Matthias, Rüdiger, Sophie, Riek, Roland P., Torres, Felix

“…Recent advances in NMR fragment screening use sample illumination to boost NMR sensitivity, reduce measurement time to a few seconds, and reduce sample…”
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Historical Biogeography of the Western Rattlesnake (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus viridis), Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Information by Pook, Catharine E, Wüster, Wolfgang, Thorpe, Roger S

“…We infer the phylogeography of the Western Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) using phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences from 1345 bp of the genes…”
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Asiatic Cobras: Population Systematics of the Naja naja Species Complex (Serpentes: Elapidae) in India and Central Asia by Wüster, Wolfgang, Thorpe, Roger S.

“…The population systematics of the cobras of the genus Naja in the Indian subcontinent and in central Asia were investigated using multivariate analysis of…”
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Taxonomic changes and toxinology: Systematic revisions of the asiatic cobras ( Naja naja species complex) by Wuester, W

“…Until recently, all Asiatic cobra populations were regarded as belonging to one single species, Naja naja. Recent revisions have shown that there are in fact…”
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Combining mitochondrial DNA sequences and morphological data to infer species boundaries: phylogeography of lanceheaded pitvipers in the Brazilian Atlantic forest, and the status of Bothrops pradoi (Squamata: Serpentes: Viperidae) by Puorto, G., Da Graça Salomão, M., Theakston, R. D. G., Thorpe, R. S., Warrell, D. A., Wüster, W.

“…Phylogeographic studies using mitochondrial DNA sequence information are frequently used as the principal source of evidence to infer species boundaries…”
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Naja siamensis, a cryptic species of venomous snake revealed by mtDNA sequencing by Wüster, W, Thorpe, R S

“…Because of possible variation in venom composition, an understanding of venomous snake systematics is of great importance for the optimization of antivenom…”
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Homogeneous linewidth of the intraband transition at 1.55   μ m in GaN/AlN quantum dots by Nguyen, D. T., Wüster, W., Roussignol, Ph, Voisin, C., Cassabois, G., Tchernycheva, M., Julien, F. H., Guillot, F., Monroy, E.

“…We present homogeneous line width measurements of the intraband transition at 1.55   μ m in GaN/AlN quantum dots by means of nonlinear spectral hole-burning…”
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Nonequilibrium dynamics in an optical transition from a neutral quantum dot to a correlated many-body state by Haupt, F., Smolka, S., Hanl, M., Wüster, W., Miguel-Sanchez, J., Weichselbaum, A., von Delft, J., Imamoglu, A.

“…We investigate the effect of many-body interactions on the optical absorption spectrum of a charge-tunable quantum dot coupled to a degenerate electron gas. A…”
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