Hiss and tell: What influences venom yields of India’s big four snakes?

Prasad Gopalkrishna Gond; Mihir Kumar; Ajinkya Unawane; Kartik Sunagar

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0013676

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Hiss and tell: What influences venom yields of India’s big four snakes?

Prasad Gopalkrishna Gond ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Prasad Gopalkrishna Gond, Mihir Kumar, Ajinkya Unawane

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Evolutionary Venomics Lab, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Mihir Kumar ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Prasad Gopalkrishna Gond, Mihir Kumar, Ajinkya Unawane

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Evolutionary Venomics Lab, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Ajinkya Unawane ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Prasad Gopalkrishna Gond, Mihir Kumar, Ajinkya Unawane

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Evolutionary Venomics Lab, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Kartik Sunagar

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: ksunagar@iisc.ac.in

Affiliation Evolutionary Venomics Lab, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0998-1581

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Hiss and tell: What influences venom yields of India’s big four snakes?

Prasad Gopalkrishna Gond,
Mihir Kumar,
Ajinkya Unawane,
Kartik Sunagar

Published: November 3, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0013676

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