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Consuming viscous prey: a novel protein-secreting delivery system in neotropical snail-eating snakes

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, March 2014
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Title
Consuming viscous prey: a novel protein-secreting delivery system in neotropical snail-eating snakes
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, March 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-14-58
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Authors

Hussam Zaher, Leonardo de Oliveira, Felipe G Grazziotin, Michelle Campagner, Carlos Jared, Marta M Antoniazzi, Ana L Prudente

Abstract

Efficient venom delivery systems are known to occur only in varanoid lizards and advanced colubroidean snakes among squamate reptiles. Although components of these venomous systems might have been present in a common ancestor, the two lineages independently evolved strikingly different venom gland systems. In snakes, venom is produced exclusively by serous glands in the upper jaw. Within the colubroidean radiation, lower jaw seromucous infralabial glands are known only in two distinct lineages-the basal pareatids and the more advanced Neotropical dipsadines known as "goo-eating snakes". Goo-eaters are a highly diversified, ecologically specialized clade that feeds exclusively on invertebrates (e.g., gastropod molluscs and annelids). Their evolutionary success has been attributed to their peculiar feeding strategies, which remain surprisingly poorly understood. More specifically, it has long been thought that the more derived Dipsadini genera Dipsas and Sibynomorphus use glandular toxins secreted by their infralabial glands to extract snails from their shells.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 4 5%
United States 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Unknown 78 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 19 23%
Researcher 11 13%
Professor 11 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 10%
Student > Master 6 7%
Other 9 11%
Unknown 20 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 39 46%
Environmental Science 7 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 4%
Computer Science 3 4%
Other 2 2%
Unknown 23 27%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 August 2018.
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