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Amemiya, F., Goris, R., Masuda, Y., Kishida, R., Atobe, Y., Ishii, N., & Kusunoki, T. (1995). The surface architecture of snake infrared receptor organs. Biomedical Research-Tokyo, 16(6), 411-421.

Bakken, G. S., & Krochmal, A. R. (2007). The imaging properties and sensitivity of the facial pits of pitvipers as determined by optical and heat-transfer analysis. Journal of Experimental Biology, 210(16), 2801-2810.

Cooper, W. E.,Jr. (2008). Tandem evolution of diet and chemosensory responses in snakes. Amphibia-Reptilia, 29(3), 393-398.

De Cock Buning, T. (1983). Thermal sensitivity as a specialization for prey capture and feeding in snakes. American Zoologist, 23(2), 363-375.

Dowling, H. G. (2004). In K. L. Lerner, & B. W. Lerner (Eds.), The gale encyclopedia of science: "Vipers". (3rd ed. ed., pp. 4219-4221). Detroit: Gale.

Goris, R. C., Atobe, Y., Nakano, M., Funakoshi, K., & Terada, K. (2007). Blood flow in snake infrared organs: Response-induced changes in individual vessels. Microcirculation (New York), 14(2), 99-110.

Goris, R. C. (2011). Infrared Organs of Snakes: An Integral Part of Vision. Journal of Herpetology, 45(1), 2-14. Retrieved from http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1670/10-238.1

Greene, H. W. (1992). The behavioral and ecological context of pitviper evolution. In J. Campbell & E. Brodie, Jr. (Eds.), Biology of Pitvipers (pp. 107-117). Tyler, Texas: Selva.

Greene, H. W., (1997). Snakes : The evolution of mystery in nature. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Krochmal, A. R., Bakken, G. S., & LaDuc, T. J. (2004). Heat in evolution's kitchen: Evolutionary perspectives on the functions and origin of the facial pit of pitvipers (viperidae: Crotalinae). Journal of Experimental Biology, 207(24), 4231-4238.

Meszler, M. (1970). Correlation of ultrastructure and function. In C. Gans & T. Parsons (Eds.), Biology of the Reptilia (pp. 305-314). London, England: Academic Press.

Moon, C. (2011). Infrared-sensitive pit organ and trigeminal ganglion in the crotaline snakes. Anat Cell Biol, 44(1), 8-13.

Panzano, V. C., Kang, K., & Garrity, P. A. (2010). Infrared snake eyes: TRPA1 and the thermal sensitivity of the snake pit organ. Science Signaling, 3(127), pe22.

Roelke, C. E., & Childress, M. J. (2007). Defensive and infrared reception responses of true vipers, pitvipers, azemiops and colubrids. Journal of Zoology (London), 273(4), 421-425.

Snake Pictures. www.freesnake.com 19 Oct., 2011.

Van Dyke J.U., & Grace M.S. (2010). The role of thermal contrast in infrared-based defensive targeting by the copperhead, agkistrodon contortrix. Anim.Behav.Animal Behaviour, 79(5), 993-999.

Yokoyama, S., Altun, A., & DeNardo, D. F. (2011). Molecular convergence of infrared vision in snakes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28(1), 45-48.