THREE SNAKE LINEAGES. “Despite the huge evolutionary distance – more than 30 million years – infrared-sensing snakes from the three different families co-opted the same molecular strategy to sense minute amounts of heat emanating from their prey: through functional tuning of TRPA1…snake TRPA1 has one of the lowest apparent thermal thresholds identified so far in vertebrates.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022