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Venomous snakes : ecology, evolution, and snakebite

Title
Venomous snakes : ecology, evolution, and snakebite / edited by R.S. Thorpe, W. Wüster, and Anita Malhotra.
Publication
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Thorpe, R. S. (Roger S.)
  • Wüster, W. (Wolfgang)
  • Malhotra, Anita.
  • Zoological Society of London.
Description
xix, 276 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Symposia of the Zoological Society of London ; no. 70
Uniform Title
Symposia of the Zoological Society of London ; no. 70.
Subject
  • Poisonous snakes > Congresses
  • Poisonous snakes > Venom > Congresses
  • Snakebites > Congresses
  • Snakebites
  • Poisonous snakes > Venom
  • Serpents
  • Snakes
  • Snakes
  • Snake Bites
  • Snake Venoms
  • Serpents
  • Poisonous snakes
  • Poisonous snakes > Venom
  • Snakebites
  • Gifslangen
  • Slangenbeten
  • Serpents venimeux > Évolution > Congrès
  • Morsures et piqûres > Congrès
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • proceedings (reports)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • "From a symposium held at the Zoological Society of London on 27 and 28 April 1995"--Ser. t.p.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
An overview of venomous snake evolution -- Systematics of sea snakes (a critical review) -- Evolution, systematics and biogeography of Palaeartic vipers -- Evolution of viperine snakes -- Phylogenetic relationships of the 'Agkistrodon complex' -- Systematic implications of lactate dehydrogenase isozyme phenotyupes in neotropical pitvipers (Viperidae: Crotalinae) -- DNA evolution of South American pitvipers of the genus Bothrops (Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperdae) -- Systematics of the Bothrops atrox complex: new insights from multivariate analysis and mitochondrial DNA sequence information -- New perspectives on the evolution of south-east Asian pitvipers (genus Trimeresurus) from molecular studies -- Reproductive strategies and sperm competition in the adder, Vipera berus -- Growth and survival of the Vipera berus in a variable environment -- The role of ecology in determining venom variation in the Malayian pitviper, Calloselasma rhodostoma -- Venom and snakebite -- Molecular evolution of phospholipase A2s and metalloproteinase/disintegrins from venoms of vipers -- Geographical and intraspecies variation in the clinical manifestations of envenoming by snakes -- Snake venom and snakebite in Australia -- Russell's viper in Indonesia: snakebite and systematics -- Toxic phospholipases in snake venom: an introductory review -- The kinetics of snake bite envenoming and therapy.
ISBN
  • 0198549865
  • 9780198549864
LCCN
96020164
OCLC
  • ocm34651628
  • 34651628
  • SCSB-2101651
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library