Area of research
Global and Planetary Change · Genetics
Research interest
Research interests include Biology, Venom, Ecology, Zoology, Predation, and Envenomation.
A Community Engagement Approach to Snakebite Prevention in Rural Uganda: Exploring Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices
Evolutionary correlates and consequences of sociality in feliform carnivorans
A double narrative: stories underpin fearful community attitudes toward snakes but offer a mechanism to reduce human-to-snake conflict
Reproduction is driven by seasonal environmental variation in an equatorial mammal, the banded mongoose (<i>Mungos mungo</i>)
High Ambient Temperatures Are Associated With Reduced Foraging Capacity in an Equatorial Mammal, the Banded Mongoose ( <i>Mungos mungo</i> )
Flowing Round the World: Water Snakes (Natricidae) Show Habitat-Related Adaptive Radiation After Dispersal to the New World
The neoteny goldilocks zone: The evolution of neoteny in <i>Ambystoma</i>
Volatile odours reflect breeding status but not social group membership in captive Damaraland mole-rats
The evolution and ecology of multiple antipredator defences
Diversity Begets Diversity When Diet Drives Snake Venom Evolution, but Evenness Rather Than Richness Is What Counts
Small increases in ambient temperature reduce offspring body mass in an equatorial mammal
Negative allometry of orb web size in spiders and the implications for the evolution of giant webs
Lack of intergenerational reproductive conflict, rather than lack of inclusive fitness benefits, explains absence of post-reproductive lifespan in long-finned pilot whales
A case of cooperative breeding in the European Starling, <i>Sturnus vulgaris</i>
Diversification dynamics of chameleons (Chamaeleonidae)
Convergent evolution of pain-inducing defensive venom components in spitting cobras
Coevolution of group-living and aposematism in caterpillars: warning colouration may facilitate the evolution from group-living to solitary habits
Radiating pain: venom has contributed to the diversification of the largest radiations of vertebrate and invertebrate animals
Cooperatively breeding banded mongooses do not avoid inbreeding through familiarity-based kin recognition
Special Issue: Evolutionary Ecology of Venom
Fangs for the Memories? A Survey of Pain in Snakebite Patients Does Not Support a Strong Role for Defense in the Evolution of Snake Venom Composition
From molecules to macroevolution: Venom as a model system for evolutionary biology across levels of life
Convergent Evolution of Pain-Inducing Defensive Venom Components in Spitting Cobras
Why do snakes produce venom? Not for self-defence, study shows
Coevolution of Snake Venom Toxic Activities and Diet: Evidence that Ecological Generalism Favours Toxicological Diversity
Coagulotoxic effects by brown snake (Pseudonaja) and taipan (Oxyuranus) venoms, and the efficacy of a new antivenom
Why don’t long-finned pilot whales have a widespread postreproductive lifespan? Insights from genetic data
The functional convergence of antibiotic resistance in β‐lactamases is not conferred by a simple convergent substitution of amino acid
Factor X activating Atractaspis snake venoms and the relative coagulotoxicity neutralising efficacy of African antivenoms
Harden up: metal acquisition in the weaponized ovipositors of aculeate hymenoptera