A study titled 'Island biogeography and competition drive rapid venom complexity evolution across rattlesnakes' was published in the journal Evolution in 2025 with DOI 10.1093/evolut/qpaf074.
Sources
- What rattlesnake venom can teach us about evolution: New USF study | ScienceDaily (sciencedaily.com)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40266827/ (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpaf074/8118642 (academic.oup.com)
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