carolinensis, Order Insectivora) secrete venomous saliva from enlarged, granular submaxillary salivary glands that discharge at the base of the grooved lower incisors. Their venom immobilizes invertebrate, amphibian or rodent prey and may be used, lethally, in internecine fights. Blarina brevicauda ...
Resource partitioning by predatory gastropods of the Genus Conus on subtidal indo-pacific coral reefs: the significance of prey size. Ecology. 1978;59(3):614–31. Article Google Scholar Barlow A, Pook CE, Harrison RA, Wüster W. Coevolution of diet and prey-specific venom activity supports...
According to the World Health Organization, snakebite is a major health challenge in tropical and sub-tropical countries including India, and therefore, it is considered as a neglected tropical disease1. The “big four” venomous snakes –Daboia russelli,Naja naja,Echis carinatus, andBungarus caeru...
A symmetry or asymmetry: Functional and compositional comparison of venom from the left and right glands of the Indochinese spitting cobra (Naja siamensis) Toxicon: X, Volume 7, 2020, Article 100050 Richard J. Harris,…, Bryan G. Fry View PDF Synthetic peptides to produce antivenoms against ...
The lionfish, originally from the Indo-Pacific, has become established in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea as an exotic invasive species. Its presence can impact native fish and invertebrates by directly preying on them or competing for food resources. Recent findings The venom of...
In examining the sub-acute toxicity of the crude venom of C. andromeda, we found that the sexual activities of the experimental rats increased several minutes after the injections (Mohebbi et al., 2016). This interesting finding implies the presence of a pheromone-like activity of the ATXB ...
A 34-year-old man who suffered an ocular bite by a venomous snake, Agkistrodon acutus (hundred-pace snake, one of the most toxic snakes in the world) to his right eye causing subconjunctival hemorrhage, sever necrosis of the corneal endothelium, and exophthalmos [46]. Although he received ...
Figure A1. Morphology of jellyfish specimens collected from Beruwala coastal waters. (A) The exumbrella; (B) exumbrella diameter (); (C) side view; (D) oral arms; (E) subumbrella region (arrow). Figure A2. Bovine serum albumin (BSA) microtiter Bradford assay standard curve. The data...
Unlike Aipysurus which has a relatively stable taxonomic history and is mainly restricted in the Australo-Papuan region, the Hydrophis complex is a far more diverse monophyletic clade that consists of close to 50 species dis- tributed in the waters of Indo-Malayan Archipelago, Indonesia, Australia...
Worker (Figure 1). Color. Surface of the general body ranging from orange-brown to dark brown; when orange-brown, the head and gaster slightly darker (Figure 1d,f); pilosity yellowish. Pilosity. Filiform, suberect, and abundant, evenly distributed along the entire body surface. Ocular pil...