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Beyond the ‘big four’: Venom profiling of the medically important yet neglected Indian snakes reveals disturbing antivenom deficiencies

• R. R. Senji Laxme ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: R. R. Senji Laxme, Suyog Khochare, Hugo Francisco de Souza

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, 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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• Suyog Khochare ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: R. R. Senji Laxme, Suyog Khochare, Hugo Francisco de Souza

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Hugo Francisco de Souza ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: R. R. Senji Laxme, Suyog Khochare, Hugo Francisco de Souza

  Roles Formal analysis

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

  ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9288-1527

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• Bharat Ahuja,

  Roles Formal analysis

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

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• Vivek Suranse,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

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

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• Gerard Martin,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation The Gerry Martin Project. Survey #1418/1419 Rathnapuri, Hunsur, Karnataka, India

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• Romulus Whitaker,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Madras Crocodile Bank Trust/Centre for Herpetology, Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Kartik Sunagar

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, 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

  ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0998-1581

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