Fine-tuned by millions of years of evolution, snake venoms have frightened but also
fascinated humanity and nowadays they constitute potential resources for drug …

Snakebites in Europe are mostly due to bites from Viperidae species of the genus Vipera.
This represents a neglected public health hazard with poorly defined incidence, morbidity …

Integrative taxonomy, combining data from multiple axes of biologically relevant variation, is
a major goal of systematics. Ideally, such taxonomies will derive from similarly integrative …

Aim Allopatric speciation is the primary mode of diversification in the Mediterranean Basin.
However, the contribution of climatic adaptation during this process is contradictory. In this …

Colouration may endorse thermoregulatory and antipredatory functions in snakes. The
thermal melanism hypothesis predicts that dark-coloured individuals are ecologically …

Lataste's viper (Vipera latastei) is a venomous European viper endemic to the Iberian
Peninsula, recognised as medically important by the World Health Organization. To date, no …

Snake venom variations are a crucial factor to understand the consequences of snakebite
envenoming worldwide, and therefore it is important to know about toxin composition …

Despite decades of molecular research, phylogenetic relationships in Palearctic vipers
(genus Vipera) still essentially rely on a few loci, such as mitochondrial barcoding genes …

The desert vipers of the genus Cerastes are a small clade of medically important venomous
snakes within the family Viperidae. According to published morphological and molecular …

Asian pit vipers belonging to the genus Craspedocephalus are a complex group of vipers,
distributed in South and Southeast Asia. Their taxonomy is unresolved in many lineages …