Publications

Pritchard, A. C., J. A. McCartney, D. W. Krause, and N. J. Kley. In press. New snakes from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Maevarano Formation, Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Gignac, P. M. and N. J. Kley. 2014. Iodine-enhanced micro-CT imaging: methodological refinements for the study of the soft-tissue anatomy of post-embryonic vertebrates. Journal of Experimental Zoology, Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 322. [doi:10.1002/jez.b.22561]

Cundall, D., E. L. Brainerd, J. Constantino, A. Deufel, D. Grapski, and N. J. Kley. 2012. Drinking in snakes: resolving a biomechanical puzzle. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology 317: 152–172. [doi:10.1002/jez.1710]

Ward, A. B. and N. J. Kley. 2012. Effects of precaudal elongation on visceral topography in a basal clade of ray-finned fishes. Anatomical Record 295: 289–297. [doi:10.1002/ar.21491]

Kley, N. J., J. J. W. Sertich, A. H. Turner, D. W. Krause, P. M. O’Connor, and J. A. Georgi. 2010. Craniofacial morphology of Simosuchus clarki (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar; pp. 13–98 in D. W. Krause and N. J. Kley (eds.), Simosuchus clarki (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 10. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (6, Supplement). [doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.532674]

Krause, D. W. and N. J. Kley. 2010. Preface; pp. 1–3 in D. W. Krause and N. J. Kley (eds.), Simosuchus clarki (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 10. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (6, Supplement). [doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.519283]

LaDuke, T. C., D. W. Krause, J. D. Scanlon, and N. J. Kley. 2010. A Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) snake assemblage from the Maevarano Formation, Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30: 109–138. [doi:10.1080/02724630903409188]

Rieppel, O., N. J. Kley, and J. A. Maisano. 2009. Morphology of the skull of the white-nosed blindsnake, Liotyphlops albirostris (Scolecophidia: Anomalepididae), as revealed by high-resolution X-ray computed tomography. Journal of Morphology 270: 536–557. [doi:10.1002/jmor.10703]

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]

Kley, N. J. and M. Kearney. 2007. Adaptations for digging and burrowing; pp. 284–309 in B. K. Hall (ed.), Fins into Limbs: Evolution, Development and Transformation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. [ISBN:0-2263-1336-0]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Kley, N. J. 2003. Blindsnakes (Typhlopidae); pp. 379–385 in M. Hutchins, J. B. Murphy and N. Schlager (eds.), Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2^nd edition. Vol. 7, Reptiles. Gale Group, Farmington Hills, MI. [ISBN:0-7876-5783-2; doi:10.1223/0787657832]

Kley, N. J. 2003. Slender blindsnakes (Leptotyphlopidae); pp. 373–377 in M. Hutchins, J. B. Murphy and N. Schlager (eds.), Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2^nd edition. Vol. 7, Reptiles. Gale Group, Farmington Hills, MI. [ISBN:0-7876-5783-2; doi:10.1223/0787657832]

Kley, N. J. 2003. Early blindsnakes (Anomalepididae); pp. 369–372 in M. Hutchins, J. B. Murphy and N. Schlager (eds.), Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2^nd edition. Vol. 7, Reptiles. Gale Group, Farmington Hills, MI. [ISBN:0-7876-5783-2; doi:10.1223/0787657832]

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]

Kley, N. J. 2001. Prey transport mechanisms in blindsnakes and the evolution of unilateral feeding systems in snakes. American Zoologist 41: 1321–1337. [doi:10.1093/icb/41.6.1321]

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]

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.

Kley, N. J. and E. L. Brainerd. 1999. Feeding by mandibular raking in a snake. Nature 402: 369–370. [doi:10.1038/46460]