Venomous Snakes

J.L. Cloudsley-Thomson, University of London, Nature/Vol.387/June 1997 Venomous Snakes is the latest volume of Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, and maintains the customary high standard of that series.

Ethology, Ecology & Evolution 9, 1997 "Venomous snakes" is the first book to present a multidisciplinary approach to venomous snake research. This book has been written to be accessible to an audience of varied scientific backgrounds. Due to the wide range of information, it will be of great interest to scientists and students involved in any aspect of venomous snake research, whilst also appealing to the growing band of amateur enthusiasts.

Tropical Doctor The Editors have succeeded in assembling the right people at the right time. This marriage of taxonomists and toxinologists has resulted in the most up to date comprehensive reference book available in this category. No toxicological medical library should be without this book.

Ethology, Ecology & Evolution, 9, 1997 "Venomous snakes" is the first book to present a multidisciplinary approach to venomous snake research. Due to the wide range of information, it will be of great interest to scientists and students involved in any aspect of venomous snake research, whilst also appealing to the growing bank of amateur enthusiasts.

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