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.
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Confirmed by PubMed, Oxford Academic (publisher), and independent science journalism (Phys.org), all matching title, journal, DOI, and year exactly. [cascade flags: aggregator_dropped_primary_exists | tier=silver indep_score=1.0 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable | kind=empirical eligibility=high]
Sources
- What rattlesnake venom can teach us about evolution: New USF study | ScienceDaily (seed:animals_and_wildlife)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40266827/ (corroboration)
- https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpaf074/8118642 (corroboration)