"Boidae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A family of snakes comprising the boas, anacondas, and pythons. They occupy a variety of habitats through the tropics and subtropics and are arboreal, aquatic or fossorial (burrowing). Some are oviparous, others ovoviviparous. Contrary to popular opinion, they do not crush the bones of their victims: their coils exert enough pressure to stop a prey's breathing, thus suffocating it. There are five subfamilies: Boinae, Bolyerinae, Erycinae, Pythoninae, and Tropidophiinae. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, p315-320)
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D017821
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.833.672.125.500
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Boidae" by people in Profiles.
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Did egg-laying boas break Dollo's law? Phylogenetic evidence for reversal to oviparity in sand boas (Eryx: Boidae). Evolution. 2010 Jan; 64(1):207-16.
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The skull of the Round Island boa, Casarea dussumieri Schlegel, based on high-resolution X-ray computed tomography. J Morphol. 2007 May; 268(5):371-84.