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Vincent, S. E., B. R. Moon, A. Herrel and N. J. Kley. 2007. Are ontogenetic shifts in diet linked to shifts in feeding mechanics? Scaling of the feeding system in the banded watersnake Nerodia fasciata. Journal of Experimental Biology 210: 2057–2069. [doi:10.1242/jeb.02779] (Download PDF)
Kley, N. J. and M. Kearney. 2007. Adaptations for digging and burrowing. In B. K. Hall (ed.), Fins into Limbs: Evolution, Development, and Transformation, pp. 284–309. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. [ISBN:0-2263-1336-0] *Download PDF of book review by Michel Laurin from Copeia 2007(4): 1050–1068.*
Vincent, S. E., P.-D. Dang, A. Herrel and N. J. Kley. 2006. Morphological integration and adaptation in the snake feeding system: a comparative phylogenetic study. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19: 1545–1554. [doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01126.x] (Download PDF)
Kley, N. J. 2006. Morphology of the lower jaw and suspensorium in the Texas blindsnake, Leptotyphlops dulcis (Scolecophidia: Leptotyphlopidae). Journal of Morphology 267: 494–515. [doi:10.1002/jmor.10414] (Download PDF)
Hilton, E. J. and N. J. Kley. 2005. Osteology of the Quillfish, Ptilichthys goodei (Perciformes: Zoarcoidei: Ptilichthyidae). Copeia 2005: 571–584. [doi:10.1643/CI-05-043R] (Download PDF)
Jackson, K., N. J. Kley and E. L. Brainerd. 2004. How snakes eat snakes: the biomechanical challenges of ophiophagy for the California kingsnake, Lampropeltis getula californiae (Serpentes: Colubridae). Zoology 107: 191–200. [doi:10.1016/j.zool.2004.06.001] (Download PDF)
Kley, N. J. 2003. Blindsnakes (Typhlopidae). In M. Hutchins, J. B. Murphy and N. Schlager (eds.), Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2nd edition. Vol. 7, Reptiles, pp. 379–385. Gale Group, Farmington Hills, MI. [ISBN:0-7876-5783-2; doi:10.1223/0787657832] (Download PDF)
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Kley, N. J. 2003. Slender blindsnakes (Leptotyphlopidae). In M. Hutchins, J. B. Murphy and N. Schlager (eds.), Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2nd edition. Vol. 7, Reptiles, pp. 373–377. Gale Group, Farmington Hills, MI. [ISBN:0-7876-5783-2; doi:10.1223/0787657832] (Download PDF)
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Kley, N. J. 2003. Early blindsnakes (Anomalepididae). In M. Hutchins, J. B. Murphy and N. Schlager (eds.), Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2nd edition. Vol. 7, Reptiles, pp. 369–372. Gale Group, Farmington Hills, MI. [ISBN:0-7876-5783-2; doi:10.1223/0787657832] (Download PDF)
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Kley, N. J. and E. L. Brainerd. 2002. Post-cranial prey transport mechanisms in the black pinesnake, Pituophis melanoleucus lodingi: an x-ray videographic study. Zoology 105: 153–164. [doi:10.1078/0944-2006-00056] (Download PDF)
Kley, N. J. 2001. Prey transport mechanisms in blindsnakes and the evolution of unilateral feeding systems in snakes. American Zoologist 41: 1321–1337. [doi:10.1668/00031569(2001)041[1321:PTMIBA]2.0.CO;2] (Download PDF)
Young, B., J. Jaggers, N. Nejman and N. J. Kley. 2001. Buccal expansion during hissing in the puff adder, Bitis arietans. Copeia 2001: 270–273. [doi:10.1643/00458511(2001)001[0270:BEDHIT]2.0.CO;2] (Download PDF)
Kley, N. J. 2000. REVIEW OF: Maine Amphibians and Reptiles, edited by M. L. Hunter Jr., A. J. K. Calhoun and M. McCollough. Herpetological Review 31: 270–271. (Download PDF)
Kley, N. J. and E. L. Brainerd. 1999. Feeding by mandibular raking in a snake. Nature 402: 369–370. [doi:10.1038/46460] (Download PDF)
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