Professor Wolfgang Wüster
Professor in Zoology (Molecular Ecology)

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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
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The good, the bad and the ugly: Australian snake taxonomists and a history of the taxanomy of Australia's venomous snakes.
Wuster, W., Williams, D., Wüster, W. & Fry, B. G., 1 Dec 2006, In: Toxicon. 48, 7, p. 919-930Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Aposematism and Batesian mimicry in snakes: through the visible spectrum and beyond?
Wuster, C. & Wüster, W., 26 Feb 2023, In: Herpetology Notes. 16, p. 165-170Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Phylogeography and systematic revision of the Egyptian cobra (Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja haje) species complex, with the description of a new species from West Africa.
Wuster, W., Trape, J. F., Chirio, L. & Wüster, W., 21 Sept 2009, In: Zootaxa. 2236, p. 1-25Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Morphological correlates of incipient arboreality and ornithophagy in island pitvipers, and the phylogenetic position of Bothrops insularis.
Wuster, W., Wüster, W., Duarte, M. R. & Da Graca Salomao, M., 1 May 2005, In: Journal of Zoology. 266, 1, p. 1-10Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Best practices: in the 21st Century, taxonomic decisions in herpetology are acceptable only when supported by a body of evidence and published via peer-review
Wuster, W., Kaiser, H., Crother, B. I., Kelly, C. M., Luiselli, L., O’Shea, M., Ota, H., Passos, P., Schleip, W. D. & Wüster, W., 1 Jan 2013, In: Herpetological Review. 44, p. 8-23Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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When continents collide: Phylogeny, historical biogeography and systematics of the medically important viper genus Echis (Squamata: Serpentes: Viperidae).
Wuster, W., Pook, C. E., Joger, U., Stumpel, N. & Wüster, W., 1 Dec 2009, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 53, 3, p. 792-807Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A new species of indigo snake from north-western Venezuela (Serpentes : Colubridae : Drymarchon)
Wuster, W., Wüster, W., Yrausquin, J. L. & Mijares-Urrutia, A., 1 Oct 2001, In: Herpetological Journal. 11, 4, p. 157-165Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Comments on Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, ELAPIDAE): request for confirmation of the availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural validation of the journal in which it was published [Case 3601]
Wuster, W., Wüster, W., Broadley, D. G. & Wallach, V., 1 Mar 2014, In: Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 71, 1, p. 37-38Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Roles of CITES in protecting new species.
Wuster, W., Vonk, F. J. & Wüster, W., 18 Aug 2006, In: Science. 313, 5789, p. 915-916Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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What's your poison?
Wuster, W. & Wüster, W., 1 Jun 2010, In: Heredity. 104, 6, p. 519Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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Ending the drought: new strategies for improving the flow of affordable, effective antivenoms in Asia and Africa
Williams, D. J., Gutiérrez, J. M., Calvete, J. J., Wüster, W., Ratanabanangkoon, K., Paiva, O., Brown, N. I., Casewell, N. R., Harrison, R. A., Rowley, P., O'Shea, M., Jensen, S. D. & Winkel, K. D., 24 Aug 2011, In: Journal of Proteomics. 74, 9, p. 1735–1767 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
Ward-Smith, H., Naude, A., Arbuckle, K. & Wuster, W., 22 Mar 2020, In: Toxins. 12, 3, 19 p., 201.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Phylogeny and diversification of mountain vipers (Montivipera, Nilson et al., 2001) triggered by multiple Plio–Pleistocene refugia and high-mountain topography in the Near and Middle East
Stümpel, N., Rajabizadeh, M., Avci, A., Wüster, W. & Joger, U., Aug 2016, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 101, p. 336-351Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Analytical strategies in venomics.
Slaagboom, J., Kaal, C., Arrahman, A., Vonk, F. J., Somsen, G. W., Calvete, J. J., Wüster, W. & Kool, J., 1 Apr 2022, In: Microchemical Journal. 175, 22 p., 107187.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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Confirmation of Naja oxiana in Himachal Pradesh, India
Santra, V., Owens, J. B., Graham, S., Wüster, W., Kuttalam, S. R., Bharti, O., Selvan, M., Mukherjee, N. & Malhotra, A., 1 Dec 2019, In: Herpetological Bulletin. 150, p. 26-28Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Natural History Notes. Naja kaouthia (monocled cobra). Behavior / Spitting.
Santra, V. & Wüster, W., 1 Jun 2017, In: Herpetological Review. 48, 2, p. 455-456 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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Phylogeography of the Central American lancehead Bothrops asper (SERPENTES: VIPERIDAE)
Saldarriaga-Córdoba, M., Parkinson, C. L., Daza, J. M., Wuster, W. & Sasa, M., 27 Nov 2017, In: PLoS ONE. 12, 11, p. 1-20 20 p., e0187969.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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)
Richards, D. P., Barlow, A. & Wüster, W., 1 Jan 2012, In: Toxicon. 59, p. 110-116 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 269-282Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Genetic ancestry of introduced populations of sand lizard (Lacerta agilis) in Wales
Owens, J. B., Wilkinson, J. W., Wüster, W., Barlow, A. & Papadopulos, A. S. T., 11 Oct 2022, Bangor: Natural Resources Wales. 32 p. (NRW Evidence Report; no. 596)Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › 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
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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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.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
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 48-55Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 760-768Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The origin and evolution of the Toxicofera reptile venom system.
Fry, B. G., Sunagar, K., Casewell, N. R., Kochva, E., Roelants, K., Scheib, H., Wüster, W., Vidal, N., Young, B., Burbink, F., Pyron, R. A., Vonk, F. J. & Jackson, T. N. W., Dec 2015, Venomous Reptiles and Their Toxins: Evolution, Pathophysiology and Biodiscovery. Fry, B. G. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford: OUP, p. 1 31 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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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.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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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review