Evolution and function of banded rings and ophiophagy in snakes

This repository contains code and data needed to reproduce the article:

Lei, J., Wu N. C., & Zhang Z. (In submission) A novel function of banded rings to prevent cannibalism in snake-eating snakes.

Zonodo repository:

Wu N.C. (2022) nicholaswunz/bandy-snake-phylogeny: Data for peer-review (v1.0). Zenodo.

Raw data

• bandy_exp_data.csv - Raw behavioural data used for the analysis.
• snake_diet_phylogeny.csv - Raw phylogeny data used for the analysis.
• squam_shl_new.tre - Snake phylogeny from Tonini et al. (2017).

R codes

• comparative_analysis.R - Data cleaning, analysis and figure production for the phylogenetic analysis.
• bandy_exp_analysis.R - Data cleaning, analysis and figure production for the behavioural predation experiment.
• geom_flat_violin.R - Function to create half violin plots.

Abstract

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Keywords: ancestral state reconstruction, macroevolution, ophiophagy, pattern evolution, Serpentes