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Professor Wolfgang Wüster

Professor in Zoology (Molecular Ecology)

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ORCID: 0000-0002-4890-4311

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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

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  1. Published

    Assembling an arsenal: Origin and evolution of the snake venom proteome inferred from phylogenetic analysis of toxin sequences.

    Wuster, W., Fry, B. G. & Wüster, W., 1 May 2004, In: Molecular Biology and Evolution. 21, 5, p. 870-883

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  2. Published

    The conserved structure of snake venom toxins confers extensive immunological cross-reactivity to toxin-specific antibody.

    Wuster, W., Harrison, R. A., Wüster, W. & Theakston, R. D., 1 Mar 2003, In: Toxicon. 41, 4, p. 441-449

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  3. Published

    Medically important differences in snake venom composition are dictated by distinct postgenomic mechanisms

    Wuster, W., Casewell, N. R., Wagstaff, S. C., Wüster, W., Cook, D. A., Bolton, F. M., King, S. I., Plan, D., Sanz. L., [. V., Calvete, J. J. & Harrison, R. A., 9 Jun 2014, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111, 25, p. 9205-9210

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  4. Published

    A new species of death adder (Acanthophis: Serpentes: Elapidae) from north-western Australia

    Wuster, W., Maddock, S. T., Ellis, R. J., Doughty, P., Smith, L. A. & Wüster, W., 28 Aug 2015, In: Zootaxa. 4007, 3, p. 301-326

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  5. Published

    No rattlesnakes in the rainforests: reply to Gosling and Bush

    Wuster, W., Wüster, W., Ferguson, J. E., Quijada-Mascarenas, J. A., Pook, C. E., Da Graca Salomao, M. & Thorpe, R. S., 1 Oct 2005, In: Molecular Ecology. 14, 11, p. 3619-3621

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  6. Published

    A nesting of vipers: Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Viperidae (Squamata: Serpentes).

    Wuster, W., Wüster, W., Peppin, L., Pook, C. E. & Walker, D. E., 1 Nov 2008, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 49, 2, p. 445-459

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  7. Published

    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. 1-25

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  8. Published

    Roles of CITES in protecting new species.

    Wuster, W., Vonk, F. J. & Wüster, W., 18 Aug 2006, In: Science. 313, 5789, p. 915-916

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  9. Published

    Snakes across the Strait: trans-Torresian phylogeographic relationships in three genera of Australasian snakes (Serpentes : Elapidae : Acanthophis, Oxyuranus, and Pseudechis).

    Wuster, W., Wüster, W., Dumbrell, A. J., Hay, C., Pook, C. E., Williams, D. J. & Fry, B. G., 1 Jan 2005, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 34, 1, p. 1-14

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  10. Published

    Aposematism and Batesian mimicry in snakes: through the visible spectrum and beyond?

    Wuster, C. & Wüster, W., 26 Feb 2023, In: Herpetology Notes. 16, p. 165-170

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  11. 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

  12. Published

    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

  13. Published

    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

  14. Published

    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. 336-351

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  15. Published

    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

  16. Published

    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

  17. Published

    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. 26-28

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  18. Published

    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

  19. 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

  20. Published

    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

  21. Published

    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

  22. Published

    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

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  23. Published

    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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  25. Published

    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

  26. Published

    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

  27. 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

  28. Published

    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

  29. Published

    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

  30. Published

    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

  31. 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

  32. Published

    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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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. M., Mulley, J. & Wüster, W., 3 Sept 2024, BioRxiv, 29 p.

    Research output: Working paper › Preprint

  36. Published

    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

  37. Published

    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

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  38. Published

    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

  39. Published

    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

  40. 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

  41. Published

    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

  42. Published

    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

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  43. Published

    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

  44. Published

    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

  45. Published

    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

  46. Published

    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

  47. Published

    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

  48. Published

    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

  49. 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

  50. Published

    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.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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