ArticleIntegrative organismal biology (Oxford, England)2022
Scaling Relationships of Maximal Gape in Two Species of Large Invasive Snakes, Brown Treesnakes and Burmese Pythons, and Implications for Maximal Prey Size.
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- Multi-omics insight into cardiac myofibril remodeling in post-prandial Burmese pythons.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Beyond mammals: the evolution of chewing and other forms of oropharyngeal food processing in vertebrates.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Multi-omics Insight into Cardiac Myofibril Remodeling in Post-Prandial Burmese Pythons.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Hard to Swallow: Scaling Relationships Between the Size of Avian Prey and the Overall Size and Maximal Gape of Brown Treesnakes.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Gape-limited invasive predator frequently kills avian prey that are too large to swallow.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Sexual dimorphism in skull size and shape ofPeerJ · 2023Article
- Using natricine snakes to test how prey type and size affect predatory behaviors and performance.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Snakes are a phylogenetically diverse (> 3500 species) clade of gape-limited predators that consume diverse prey and have considerable ontogenetic and interspecific variation in size, but empirical data on maximal gape are very limited. To test how overall size predicts gape, we quantified the scaling relationships between maximal gape, overall size, and several cranial dimensions for a wide range of sizes (mass 8-64,100 g) for two large, invasive snake species: Burmese pythons (
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