Venomous Snakes

In the search for snakebite antidotes, the ecology and evolution of venomous snakes is of critical importance. Until this publication, no text had addressed both the medical aspects of snakebite treatment as well as the highly relevant ecological and evolutionary aspects.

EVOLUTION AND SPECIATION; 1. An overview of venomous snake evolution; 2. Systematics of sea snakes (a critical review); 3. Evolution, systematics and biogeography of Palaeartic vipers; 4. Evolution of viperine snakes; 5. Phylogenetic relationships of the 'Agkistrodon complex'; 6. Systematic implications of lactate dehydrogenase isozyme phenotyupes in Neotropical pitvipers (Viperidae: Crotalinae); 7. DNA evolution of South American pitvipers of the genus Bothrops (Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperdae); 8. Systematics of the Bothrops atrox complex: new insights from multivariate analysis and mitochondrial DNA sequence information; 9. New perspectives on the evolution of south-east Asian pitvipers (genus Trimeresurus) from molecular studies; ECOLOGY; 10. Reproductive strategies and sperm competition in the adder, Vipera berus; 11. Growth and survival of Vipera berus in a variable environment; 12. The role of ecology in determining venom variation in the Malayian pitviper, Calloselasma rhodostoma; 13. Venom and snakebite; 14. Molecular evolution of phospholipase A2s and metalloproteinase/disintegrins from venoms of vipers; 15. Geographical and intraspecies variation in the clinical manifestations of envenoming by snakes; 16. Snake venom and snakebite in Australia; 17. Russell's viper in Indonesia: snakebite and systematics; 18. Toxic phospholipases in snake venom: an introductory review; 19. The kinetics of snake bite envenoming and therapy