The medical threat of mamba envenoming in sub-Saharan Africa revealed by genus-wide analysis of venom composition, toxicity and antivenomics profiling of available antivenoms

Ainsworth, S., Petras, D., Engmark, M., Süssmuth, R., Rowley, P., Wuster, W., Dorrestein, P. C., Arias, A. S., Gutiérrez, J. M., Harrison, R. A., Casewell, N. R. & Calvete, J. J., 10 Feb 2018, In: Journal of Proteomics. 172, p. 173-189

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Toxic habits: an analysis of general trends and biases in snake venom research

Avella, I., Wüster, W., Luiselli, L. & Martínez-Freiría, F., 17 Dec 2022, In: Toxins. 14, 12, p. 884 17 p., 884.

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Unexpected lack of specialisation in the flow properties of spitting cobra venom

Avella, I., Barajas-Ledesma, E., Casewell, N. R., Harrison, R. A., Rowley, P., Crittenden, E., Wüster, W., Castiglia, R., Holland, C. & van der Meijden, A., 7 Apr 2021, In: Journal of Experimental Biology. 224, 7, 11 p., jeb229229.

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One Size Fits All—Venomics of the Iberian Adder (Vipera seoanei, Lataste 1878) reveals low levels of venom variation across its distributional range

Avella, I., Damm, M., Freitas, I., Wüster, W., Lucchini, N., Zuazo, Ó., Süssmuth, R. & Martínez-Freiría, F., 1 Jun 2023, In: Toxins. 15, 6, 22 p., 371.

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Interpopulational variation and ontogenetic shift in the venom composition of Lataste's viper (Vipera latastei, Boscá 1878) from northern Portugal

Avella, I., Calvete, J. J., Sanz, L., Wüster, W., Licata, F., Quesada-Bernat, S., Rodriguez, Y. & Martínez-Freiría, F., 15 Jul 2022, In: Journal of Proteomics. 263, 104613.

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

Aymeric, R., Soerensen, C., op den Brouw, B., Lister, C., Dashevsky, D., Arbuckle, K., Gloria, A., Zdenek, C., Casewell, N. R., Gutiérrez, J. M., Wuster, W., Ali, S. A., Masci, P., Rowley, P., Frank, N. & Fry, B. G., 5 Oct 2017, In: Toxicology Letters. 280, 159-170, p. 159-170

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Phylogeography of the widespread African puff adder (Bitis arietans) reveals multiple Pleistocene refugia in southern Africa

Barlow, A., Baker, K., Hendry, C. R., Peppin, L., Phelps, T., Tolley, K. A., Wüster, C. E. & Wuster, W., 1 Feb 2013, In: Molecular Ecology. 22, 4, p. 1134-1157

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Ancient habitat shifts and organismal diversification are decoupled in the African viper genus Bitis (Serpentes: Viperidae)

Barlow, A., Wüster, W., Kelly, C. M. R., Branch, W., Phelps, T. & Tolley, K. A., 1 Jun 2019, In: Journal of Biogeography. 46, 6, p. 1234-1248 15 p.

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

Barlow, A., Pook, C. E., Harrison, R. A. & Wüster, W., 1 Jul 2009, In: Proceedings of The Royal Society B - Biological Sciences. 276, 1666, p. 2443-2449

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The benefits of contributing to the citizen science platform iNaturalist as an identifier

Callaghan, C. T., Mesaglio, T., Asher, J. S., Brooks, T. M., Cabras, A. A., Chandler, M., Cornwell, W. K., Ríos-Málaver, I. C., Dankowicz, E., Dhiya'ulhaq, N. U., Fuller, R. A., Galindo-Real, C., Grattarola, F., Hewitt, S., Higgins, L., Hitchcock, C., Hung, K.-L. J., Iwane, T., Kahumbu, P., Kendrick, R., Kieschnick, S. R., Kunz, G., Lee, C. C., Lin, C.-T., Loarie, S., Medina, M. N., McGrouther, M. A., Miles, L., Modi, S., Nowak, K., Oktaviani, R., Waswala Olewe, B. M., Pagé, J., Petrovan, S., saari, C., Seltzer, C. E., Seregin, A. P., Sullivan, J. J., Sumanapala, A. P., Takoukam, A., Widness, J., Willmott, K., Wüster, W. & Young, A. N., 10 Nov 2022, In: PLoS Biology. 20, 11, p. e3001843 6 p., e3001843.

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Response to comments on "Compassionate Conservation deserves a morally serious rather than dismissive response - reply to Callen et al., 2020"

Callen, A., Hayward, M. W., Klop-Toker, K., Allen, B. L., Ballard, G., Beranek, C. T., Broekhuis, F., Bugir, C. K., Clarke, R. H., Clulow, J., Clulow, S., Daltry, J. C., Davies-Mostert, H. T., Di Blanco, Y. E., Dixon, V., Fleming, P. J. S., Howell, L. G., Kerley, G. I. H., Legge, S. M., Lenga, D. J., Major, T., Montgomery, R. A., Moseby, K., Meyer, N., Parker, D. M., Periquet, S., Read, J., Scanlon, R. J., Shuttleworth, C., Tamessar, C. T., Taylor, W. A., Tuft, K., Upton, R. M. O., Valenzuela, M., Witt, R. R. & Wuster, W., 30 Apr 2020, In: Biological Conservation. 244

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Envisioning the future with 'compassionate conservation': An ominous projection for native wildlife and biodiversity

Callen, A., Hayward, M. W., Klop-Toker, K., Allen, B. L., Ballard, G., Beranek, C. T., Broekhuis, F., Bugir, C. K., Clarke, R. H., Clulow, J., Clulow, S., Daltry, J. C., Davies-Mostert, H. T., Di Blanco, Y. E., Dixon, V., Fleming, P. J. S., Howell, L. G., Kerley, G. I. H., Legge, S. M., Lenga, D. J., Major, T., Montgomery, R. A., Moseby, K., Meyer, N., Parker, D. M., Periquet, S., Read, J., Scanlon, R. J., Shuttleworth, C., Tamessar, C. T., Taylor, W. A., Tuft, K., Upton, R. M. O., Valenzuela, M., Witt, R. R. & Wuster, W., Jan 2020, In: Biological Conservation. 241, 108365.

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Venom complexity in a pitviper produced by facultative parthenogenesis

Calvete, J. J., Casewell, N. R., Hernandez-Guzman, U., Quesada-Bernat, S., Sanz, L., Rokyta, D. R., Storey, D., Albulescu, L. O., Wuster, W., Smith, C. F., Schuett, G. W. & Booth, W., 1 Aug 2018, In: Scientific Reports. 8, 12 p., 11539 (2018).

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Genome-wide data implicate terminal fusion automixis in king cobra facultative parthenogenesis.

Card, D. C., Vonk, F. J., Smallbrugge, S., Casewell, N. R., Wüster, W., Castoe, T. A., Schuett, G. W. & Booth, W., 31 Mar 2021, In: Scientific Reports. 11, 1, 9 p., 7271.

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Mohave rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus) identification revisited

Cardwell, M. D., Massey, D. J., Smelski, G. & Wüster, W., 1 Jun 2022, In: Wilderness and Environmental Medicine. 33, 2, p. 210-218

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Natural History Notes. Scolecophis atrocinctus (Black-banded Snake). Reproduction / Combat Behaviour

Chernov, E., Hoffmann, E. P. & Wüster, W., 1 Sept 2020, In: Herpetological Review. 51, 3, p. 628-629 2 p.

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Taxonomic revision of the king cobra Ophiophagus hannah (Cantor, 1836) species complex (Reptilia: Serpentes: Elapidae), with the description of two new species

Das, I., Gowri Shankar, P., Swamy, P., Williams, R. C., Lalremsanga, H. T., Prashanth, P., Sahoo, G., Vijayakumar, S. P., Höglund, J., Shanker, K., Dutta, S. K., Ganesh, S. R. & Wüster, W., 16 Oct 2024, In: European Journal of Taxonomy. 961, p. 1 51 p.

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Anonymous nuclear markers for the African adders (Serpentes: Viperidae: Bitis)

De Bruyn, M., Wuster, W., Barlow, A. & Grail, W., 1 Dec 2012, In: Conservation Genetics Resources. 4, 4, p. 967-969

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Medically important snakes and snakebite envenoming in Iran

Dehghani, R., Monzavi, S. M., Mehrpour, O., Shirazi, F. M., Hassanian-Moghaddam, H., Keyler, D. E., Wüster, W., Westerström, A. & Warrell, D. A., 23 May 2023, In: Toxicon. 230, 26 p., 107149.

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Multilevel comparison of Indian Naja venoms and their cross-reactivity with Indian polyvalent antivenoms

Deka, A., Bhatia, S., Santra, V., Bharti, O., Lalremsanga, H., Martin, G., Wüster, W., Owens, J. B., Graham, S., Doley, R. & Malhotra, A., 1 Apr 2023, In: Toxins. 15, 4, 24 p.

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Citizen science and online data: Opportunities and challenges for snake ecology and action against snakebite

Durso, A. M., Ruiz de Castañeda, R., Montalcini, C., Mondardini, M. R., Fernandez-Marquez, J. L., Grey, F., Müller, M. M., Uetz, P., Marshall, B., Gray, R. J., Smith, C. E., Becker, D., Pingleton, M., Louies, J., Abegg, A. D., Akuboy, J., Alcoba, G., Daltry, J. C., Entiauspe-Neto, O. M., Freed, P., de Freitas, M. A., Glaudas, X., Huang, S., Huang, T., Kalki, Y., Kojima, Y., Laudisoit, A., Limbu, K. P., Martínez-Fonseca, J. G., Mebert, K., Rödel, M. O., Ruane, S., Ruedi, M., Schmitz, A., Tatum, S. A., Tillack, F., Visvanathan, A., Wüster, W. & Bolon, I., 1 Jul 2021, In: Toxicon: X. 9-10, 19 p., 100071.

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

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., 13 Jan 2021, In: Royal Society Open Science. 8, 1, 21 p., 201273.

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An evaluation of the nomina for death adders (Acanthophis Daudin, 1803) proposed by Wells & Wellington (1985), and confirmation of A. cryptamydros Maddock et al., 2015 as the valid name for the Kimberley death adder

Ellis, R. J., Kaiser, H., Maddock, S., Doughty, P. & Wüster, W., 29 Jun 2021, In: Zootaxa. 4995, 1, p. 161–172 12 p.

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Bacterial Adaptation to Venom in Snakes and Arachnida

Esmaeilishirazifard, E., Usher, L., Trim, C., Sangal, V., Tyson, G. F., Barlow, A., Redway, K. F., Taylor, J. D., Kremida-Vlachou, M., Davies, S., Loftus, T. D., Lock, M. M. G., Wright, K., Dalby, A., Snyder, L. A. S., Wüster, W., Trim, S. & Moschos, S. A., 29 Jun 2022, In: Microbiology Spectrum. 10, 3, 16 p., e0240821.

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You are what your ancestors ate: retained bufadienolide resistance in the piscivorous water cobra Naja annulata (Serpentes: Elapidae)

Fletcher, J., Malhotra, A. & Wüster, W., 1 Jul 2023, In: Herpetological Journal. 33, 3, p. 83-87 5 p.

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Evaluating taxonomic inflation: towards evidence-based species delimitation in Eurasian vipers (Serpentes: Viperinae)

Freitas, I., Ursenbacher, S., Mebert, K., Zinenko, O., Schweiger, S., Wüster, W., Brito, J. C., Crnobrnja-Isailović, J., Halpern, B., Fahd, S., Santos, X., Pleguezuelos, J. M., Joger, U., Orlov, N., Mizsei, E., Lourdais, O., Zuffi, M. A. L., Strugariu, A., Zamfirescu, Ş. R., Martínez-Solano, Í., Velo-Antón, G., Kaliontzopoulou, A. & Martínez-Freiría, F., 30 Jun 2020, In: Amphibia-Reptilia. 41, 3, p. 285-311 27 p.

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King or royal family? Testing for species boundaries in the King Cobra, Ophiophagus hannah (Cantor, 1836), using morphology and multilocus DNA analyses

Gowri Shankar, P., Swamy, P., Williams, R. C., Ganesh, S. R., Moss, M., Höglund, J., Das, I., Sahoo, G., Vijayakumar, S. P., Shanker, K., Wüster, W. & Dutta, S. K., Dec 2021, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 165, 107300, 63 p., 107300.

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Deconstructing compassionate conservation

Hayward, M. W., Callen, A., Allen, B. L., Ballard, G., Broekhuis, F., Bugir, C., Clarke, R. H., Clulow, J., Clulow, S., Daltry, J. C., Davies-Mostert, H. T., Fleming, P. J. S., Griffin, A. S., Howell, L. G., Kerley, G. I. H., Klop-Toker, K., Legge, S., Major, T., Meyer, N., Montgomery, R. A., Moseby, K., Parker, D. M., Périquet, S., Read, J., Scanlon, R., Seeto, R., Shuttleworth, C., Somers, M. J., Tamessar, C. T., Tuft, K., Upton, R., Valenzuela-Molina, M., Wayne, A., Witt, R. R. & Wuster, W., Aug 2019, In: Conservation Biology. 33, 4, p. 760-768

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Taxonomy and nomenclature of the Pantherophis obsoletus complex

Hillis, D. M. & Wüster, W., 9 Mar 2021, In: Herpetological Review. 52, 1, p. 51-52 2 p.

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Protecting stable biological nomenclatural systems enables universal communication: A collective international appeal

1558 additional coauthors, Jul 2024, In: BioScience. 74, 7, p. 467-472 6 p.

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How do King Cobras move across a major highway? Unintentional wildlife crossing structures may facilitate movement

Jones, M. D., Marshall, B. M., Smith, S. N., Crane, M., Silva, I., Artchawakom, T., Suwanwaree, P., Waengsothorn, S., Wüster, W., Goode, M. & Strine, C. T., 17 Mar 2022, In: Ecology and Evolution. 12, 3, 15 p., e8691.

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

Kazandjian, T. D., Petras, D., Robinson, S. D., van Thiel, J., Greene, H. W., Arbuckle, K., Barlow, A., Carter, D. A., Wouters, R., Whiteley, G., Wagstaff, S. C., Arias, A. S., Albulescu, L. O., Plettenberg Laing, A., Hall, C., Heap, A., Penrhyn-Lowe, S., McCabe, C. V., Ainsworth, S., da Silva, R. R., Dorrestein, P. C., Richardson, M. K., Gutiérrez, J. M., Calvete, J. J., Harrison, R. A., Vetter, I., Undheim, E. A. B., Wüster, W. & Casewell, N. R., 22 Jan 2021, In: Science. 371, 6527, p. 386-390 5 p.

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Multi-locus phylogeny and species delimitation of Australo-Papuan blacksnakes(Pseudechis Wagler, 1830: Elapidae: Serpentes)

Maddock, S., Childerstone, A., Fry, B. G., Williams, D. J., Barlow, A. & Wüster, W., 1 Feb 2017, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 107, February, p. 48-55

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Black-necked spitting cobra Naja nigricollis Reinhardt, 1843 repels a large pack of banded mongooses (Mungos mungo).

Madsen, T. & Wüster, W., 15 Sept 2022, In: African Herp News. 80, p. 75-78 4 p.

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Museum DNA reveals a new, potentially extinct species of rinkhals (Serpentes: Elapidae: Hemachatus) from the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe

Major, T., Renk, P., Reissig, J., Paijmans, J., Morris, E., Hofreiter, M., Barlow, A., Broadley, D. G. & Wüster, W., 27 Sept 2023, In: PLoS ONE. 18, 9, 19 p., e0291432.

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Mate today, gone tomorrow: male-on-female cannibalism in Zamenis longissimus (Laurenti, 1768) in North Wales

Major, T., Bracegirdle, R., Gandini, A., Limia Russel, G., Pozzi, A., Morgan, R., Mulley, J. & Wüster, W., 17 Jan 2023, In: Herpetology Notes. 16, p. 51-54 4 p.

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A reliance on human habitats is key to the success of an introduced predatory reptile

Major, T., Jeffrey, L., Limia Russel, G., Bracegirdle, R., Gandini, A., Morgan, R., Marshall, B., Mulley, J. & Wüster, W., 5 Feb 2025, In: PLoS ONE. 20, 2, p. e0310352 22 p.

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Marking the un-markable: visible implant elastomer in wild juvenile snakes

Major, T., Alkins, D. R., Jeffrey, L. & Wüster, W., 1 Jul 2020, In: Herpetological Journal. 30, 3, p. 173-176 4 p.

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

Malhotra, A., Wüster, W., Owens, J. B., Hodges, C. W., Jesudasan, A., Ch, G., Kartik, A., Christopher, P., Louies, J., Naik, H., Santra, V., Kuttalam, S. R., Attre, S., Sasa, M., Bravo-Vega, C. & Murray, K. A., 1 Nov 2021, In: Toxicon: X. 12, November 2021, 18 p., 10081.

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Widespread vulnerability of Malagasy predators to the toxins of an introduced toad

Marshall, B. M., Casewell, N. R., Vences, M., Glaw, F., Andreone, F., Rakotoarison, A., Zancolli, G., Woog, F. & Wuster, W., 4 Jun 2018, In: Current Biology. 28, 11, p. R654-R655 2 p.

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What bit the Ancient Egyptians? Niche modelling to identify the snakes described in the Brooklyn medical papyrus

McBride, E., Winder, I. C. & Wüster, W., 7 Oct 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Environmental Archaeology.

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Natural History Notes: Crotalus scutulatus (Mohave rattlesnake). Maximum size.

Mrinalini, [. V., Hicks, J. J. & Wüster, W., 1 Jun 2015, In: Herpetological Review. 46, 2, p. 271 1 p.

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New locality records and notes on the scalation of the Alpine Punjab skink, Eurylepis taeniolata Blyth 1854, from Himachal Pradesh, India

Owens, J. B., Kuttalam, S. R., Santra, V., Graham, S., Wüster, W., Mukherjee, N., Bharti, O. & Malhotra, A., 24 Dec 2024, In: Reptiles & Amphibians. 31, 1, p. 1-2 2 p., e21541.

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The genome sequence of the common adder, Vipera berus (Linnaeus, 1758): [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]

Owens, J. B., Wüster, W., Mulley, J., Graham, S., Morgan, R. & Barlow, A., 14 Jan 2025, In: Wellcome Open Research . 10, 11, 13 p.

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Historical biogeography of the western rattlesnake (Serpentes : Viperidae : Crotalus viridis), inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence information

Pook, C. E., Wuster, W. & Thorpe, R. S., 1 May 2000, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 15, 2, p. 269-282

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