Ryan K. Schott

TL;DR: In this Article, the museum catalogue numbers for the paratype and referred specimens of Acrotholus audeti nov. gen. sp.

TL;DR: The python and king cobra genomes are compared along with genomic samples from other snakes and transcriptome analysis is performed to gain insights into the extreme phenotypes of the python, finding rapid and massive transcriptional responses in multiple organ systems that occur on feeding and coordinate major changes in organ size and function.

TL;DR: The approximately 5-Gb tuatara ( Sphenodon punctatus) genome assembly provides a resource for analysing amniote evolution, and highlights the imperative for meaningful cultural engagement with Indigenous communities in genome-sequencing endeavours.

TL;DR: Some of the first links between secreted venom proteins, the genes that encode them, and their evolutionary origins in a rear-fanged colubrid snake are provided, together with new genomic insight into the coevolutionary arms race between garter snake and highly toxic newt prey that led to toxin resistance in garter snakes.

TL;DR: It is proposed that these cone-like rods may have evolved to regain spectral sensitivity and chromatic discrimination as a result of ancestral losses of middle-wavelength cone opsins in early snake evolution, illustrating how sensory evolution can be shaped not only by environmental constraints but also by historical contingency in forming new cell types with convergent functionality.