Professor Wolfgang Wüster
Professor in Zoology (Molecular Ecology)

Affiliations
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- http://mefgl.bangor.ac.uk/staff/wuster.php
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Contact info
3rd floor, Environment Centre Wales, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK
Email: w.wuster@bangor.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1248 382301
Web: ResearchGate; GoogleScholar
- 2023
- Published
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Bungled Bungarus: lessons from a venomous snake complex illustrate why taxonomic decisions belong in taxonomy-competent journals
Wüster, W. & Kaiser, H., 31 May 2023, In: Zootaxa. 5297, 1, p. 139-143 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Genomics reveals broad hybridization in deeply divergent Palearctic grass and water snakes (Natrix spp.)
Schöneberg, Y., Winter, S., Arribas, O., Di Nicola, M. R., Master, M., Owens, J. B., Rovatsos, M., Wüster, W., Janke, A. & Fritz, U., Jul 2023, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 184, 9 p., 107787.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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On the importance of types and the perils of “en passant” taxonomy: a brief history of the typification of Coluber naja Linnaeus, 1758 (Serpentes: Elapidae) and its implications, with the designation of a lectotype
Wüster, W. & Tillack, F., 20 Sept 2023, In: Zootaxa. 5346, 4, p. 403-419Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- E-pub ahead of print
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Ancient Egypt had far more venomous snakes than the country today, according to our new study of a scroll
Winder, I. C. & Wüster, W., 16 Oct 2023, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
- 2024
- Published
Once upon a diamondback. Learning lessons about the fragility of desert life.
Wüster, W., 2024, Lost Frogs and Hot Snakes. Herpetologists' Tales from the Field. Crump, M. L. (ed.). Ithaca, NY: Comstock Publishing Associates, p. 145-150 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
- Published
Preclinical Evaluation of the Neutralising Efficacy of Three Monospecific Antivenoms Against the Venoms of Five African Echis Species, Including the Recently Partitioned E. ocellatus and E. romani
Edge, R. J., Marriott, A. E., Keen, M., Xie, T., Crittenden, E., Dawson, C. A., Wilkinson, M. C., Wüster, W., Casewell, N. R., Ainsworth, S. & Menzies, S. K., 19 Mar 2024, Social Science Research Network (SSRN), p. 1, 37 p.Research output: Working paper › Preprint
- Published
Snake Identification in the Ancient Egyptian Brooklyn Medical Papyrus. A New Study of the Twenty-Four Extant Registers of the "Snakebite Papyrus"
Sanchez, G. M., Meltzer, E. S., Wüster, W., Casewell, N. R. & Schuett, G. W., 15 Jun 2024, Columbus, Georgia, USA: Lockwood Press. 212 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
- Published
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
How not to describe a species: lessons from a tangle of anacondas (Boidae: Eunectes Wagler, 1830)
Wüster, W., Kaiser, H., Hoogmoed, M. S., Ceríaco, L. M. P., Dirksen, L., Dufresnes, C., Glaw, F., Hille, A., Köhler, J., Koppetsch, T., Milto, K. D., Shea, G. M., Tarkhnishvili, D. N., Thomson, S. A., Vences, M. & Böhme, W., Aug 2024, In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 201, 4, 26 p., zlae099.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. M., Mulley, J. & Wüster, W., 3 Sept 2024, BioRxiv, 29 p.Research output: Working paper › Preprint
- Published
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2025
- Published
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
- Published
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Britain has a new snake species – should climate change mean it is allowed to stay?
Major, T. & Wüster, W., 7 Feb 2025, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article