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
- Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
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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. 445-459Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A new cobra (Elapidae : Naja) from Myanmar (Burma)
Wuster, W., Slowinski, J. B. & Wüster, W., 1 Jun 2000, In: Herpetologica. 56, 2, p. 257-270Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 301-326Research 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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A new species of spitting cobra (Naja) from north-eastern Africa (Serpentes : Elapidae)
Wuster, W., Wüster, W. & Broadley, D. G., 1 Jan 2003, In: Journal of Zoology. 259, 4, p. 345-359Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A new species of wolf snake (Serpentes : Colubridae : Lycodon) from the Cardamom Mountains, southwestern Cambodia
Wuster, W., Daltry, J. C. & Wüster, W., 1 Dec 2002, In: Herpetologica. 58, 4, p. 498-504Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A review of the southern African ‘non-spitting’ cobras (Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja).
Wuster, W., Broadley, D. G. & Wüster, W., 1 Jan 2004, In: African Journal of Herpetology. 53, 2, p. 101-122Research 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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Analysis of Colubroidea snake venoms by liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry: evolutionary and toxinological implications.
Wuster, W., Fry, B. G., Wüster, W., Ramjan, S. F., Jackson, T., Martelli, P. & Kini, R. M., 1 Aug 2003, In: Rapid communications in Mass Spectrometry. 17, 18, p. 2047-2062Research 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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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 967-969Research 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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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. 870-883Research 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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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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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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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
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Co-evolution of diet and prey-specific venom activity supports the role of selection in snake venom evolution.
Wuster, W., 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. 2443-2449Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Coevolution 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., 7 Jul 2009, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Combining mitochondrial DNA sequences and morphological data to infer species boundaries: phylogeography of lanceheaded pitvipers in the Brazilian Atlantic forest, and the status of Bothrops pradoi (Squamata : Serpentes : Viperidae).
Wuster, W., Puorto, G., Da Graca Salomao, M., Theakston, R. D., Thorpe, R. S., Warrell, D. A. & Wüster, W., 1 Jul 2001, In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 14, 4, p. 527-538Research 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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Comparative venom gland transcriptome surveys of the saw-scaled vipers (Viperidae: Echis) reveal substantial intra-family gene diversity and novel venom transcripts.
Wuster, W., Casewell, N. R., Harrison, R. A., Wüster, W. & Wagstaff, S. C., 30 Nov 2009, In: BMC Genomics. 10, p. 564Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Complex cocktails: the evolutionary novelty of venoms
Wuster, W., Casewell, N. R., Wüster, W., Vonk, F. J., Harrison, R. A. & Fry, B. G., 1 Apr 2013, In: Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 28, 4, p. 291-229Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review