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Spectral Diversification and Trans-Species Allelic Polymorphism during the Land-to-Sea Transition in Snakes.
Current biology : CB - 6 Jul 2020
Simões Bruno F, Gower David J, Rasmussen Arne R, Sarker Mohammad A R, Fry Gary C, Casewell Nicholas R, Harrison Robert A, Hart Nathan S, Partridge Julian C, Hunt David M, Chang Belinda S, Pisani Davide, Sanders Kate L
Abstract excerpt
Snakes are descended from highly visual lizards [1] but have limited (probably dichromatic) color vision attributed to a dim-light lifestyle of early snakes [2-4]. The living species of front-fanged elapids, however, are ecologically very diverse, with ∼300 terrestrial species (cobras, taipans, etc.) and ∼60 fully marine sea snakes, plus eight independently marine, amphibious sea kraits [1]. Here, we investigate...
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