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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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. 403-419

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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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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

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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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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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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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Convergent evolution of toxin resistance in animals

van Thiel, J., Khan, M. A., Wouters, R. M., Harris, R. J., Casewell, N. R., Fry, B. G., Kini, R. M., Mackessy, S. P., Vonk, F. J., Wüster, W. & Richardson, M. K., Oct 2022, In: Biological Reviews. 97, 5, p. 1823-1843 21 p.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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Confronting taxonomic vandalism in biology: conscientious community self-organization can preserve nomenclatural stability

Wüster, W., Thomson, S. A., O'Shea, M. & Kaiser, H., Jul 2021, In: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 133, 3, p. 645–670 26 p.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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