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Structural flexibility of the small intestine and liver of garter snakes in response to feeding and fasting
... red-sided garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis). The red-sided garter snake is common in the northern and central United States and occupies a variety of habitats, but with a preference for ...
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Endocrine mechanisms mediating temperature induced reproductive behavior in red sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis)
... red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis ...of snakes, providing a potential mechanism to explain reported annual variation in steroid ...red-sided garter snakes exhibit a ...
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Seasonal and sex differences in responsiveness to adrenocorticotropic hormone contribute to stress response plasticity in red sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis)
... red-sided garter snakes are temporally dissociated breeders that have relatively low androgen concentrations during mating (reviewed in Lutterschmidt, ...
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How to make a sexy snake: estrogen activation of female sex pheromone in male red sided garter snakes
... red-sided garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis), is a model vertebrate for studying hormonal control of chemical signals because males completely rely on the female sex pheromone to identify potential ...
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Erythrism in the Maritime Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis pallidulus , in Nova Scotia
... Gilhen (1984) reported a fourth uncommon melanis- tic condition having a ground colour of black. I add an uncommon fifth condition which is distinctly scarlet in ground colour, or erythristic (Figure 1). Two adult female ...
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The energetic consequences of dietary specialization in populations of the garter snake, Thamnophis elegans
... the garter snakes of North and Middle America represent a group of ecologically diverse habitat and dietary generalists in which to study the evolution of ...the garter snake group, ...
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Molecular adaptations for sensing and securing prey and insight into amniote genome diversity from the garter snake genome
... in snakes, suggesting that the all-cone retina of Thamnophis evolved through transmutation of rods into cone-like ...some garter snakes in response to toxic newt ...of snakes, while also ...
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Temperature dependent regulation of blood distribution in snakes
... of garter snakes, making them susceptible to predation at low ...that garter snakes scarcely use their tails at all in locomotion (Jayne and Bennet, ...in garter snakes are the ...
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A proposal to sequence the genome of a garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis)
... and snakes ~170MYA ...the garter snakes and vipers (Castoe and Pollock, ...from snakes to rodents (via parasitizing the re- verse transcriptase of a Bov-B LINE) has been shown, demonstrating ...
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Incline and peg spacing have interactive effects on the arboreal locomotor performance and kinematics of brown tree snakes, Boiga irregularis
... for snakes to attain high speeds of terrestrial lateral ...tree snakes on the horizontal surfaces, which occurred with a spacing of ...both garter snakes (Kelley et al., 1997) and the brown ...
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Size dependence in non sperm ejaculate production is reflected in daily energy expenditure and resting metabolic rate
... red-sided garter snakes have higher mass-specific RMR and DEE than large males in both the mating and courting groups, which suggests smaller males are less efficient and/or allocate more energy to courting ...
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Responses to freezing exposure of hatchling turtles Trachemys scripta elegans: factors influencing the development of freeze tolerance by reptiles
... Garter snakes frozen at —2.5°C recovered fully after freezing exposures of 3 h or less, which produced ice contents of up to about 40 % of total body water; with longer times and greater[r] ...
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... Bites and toxinology of sea snakes, particularly with reference to Indian scenario have been briefly reviewed by Vijayaraghavan & Ganesh (2015) and Whitaker & Martin (2015). This is sumamrised in the ...
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The diversity, evolution and ecology of Salmonella in venomous snakes
... venomous snakes has remained ...omous snakes to humans may lead to contaminated faecal matter being shed on the surfaces and in water sources used for human homes and to irrigate salad crops ...venomous ...
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The snakes and ladders of FM service excellence
... So the value added for me is all the things that you are doing on top of your specification that the client goes that's fantastic, So, from my point of view, service excellence for me is[r] ...
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Changes in red cell ATP concentration and oxygen affinity following birth in the neonatal garter snake Thamnophis elegans
... The oxygen affinity of hemoglobin from the garter snake is modulated by ATP and maternal-fetal oxygen transfer in this animal appears to be facilitated by different maternal and fetal co[r] ...
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Salt tolerance’s toll: prolonged exposure to saline water inflicts damage to the blood cells of dice snakes Natrix tessellata
... Snakes exposed to 16 and 36 ‰ salinity presented erythro- cytes with ruptured and damaged membranes of 71.16 and 45.96 % compared to only 0.37 % in the freshwater control group (Table 1). This difference was ...
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Habitat selection in a rocky landscape: experimentally decoupling the influence of retreat site attributes from that of landscape features
... headed snakes chose rocks far from leaf litter, whereas small-eyed snakes and red-throated skinks chose rocks close to leaf litter (Table 1, Figure ...Small-eyed snakes and broad-headed snakes ...
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Snakes and ladders in an inhomogeneous neural field model
... classical snakes and ladders structure that is found in the one-dimensional Swift–Hohenberg equation as well as previous studies in neural field models: for our model, however, both solutions and bifurcation ...
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Future directions in the research and management of marine snakes
... marine snakes, there is a strong drive to expand our knowledge about these remarkable ...marine snakes in many regions (Punay, 1975; Van Cao et ...marine snakes in Vietnam (Van Cao et ...
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