Bibliography

Below is an exhaustive list of all currently available scientific literature focusing on the Milos viper (Macrovipera schweizeri), with hyperlinks and updated as of September 2025. All information on the website has been drawn from these same publications (in chronological order):

Herrmann, Hans-Werner, Ulrich Joger, and Göran Nilson. "Phylogeny and systematics of viperine snakes. III: resurrection of the genus Macrovipera (Reuss, 1927) as suggested by biochemical evidence." Amphibia-Reptilia 13, no. 4 (1992): 375-392.

Nilson, Göran, Claes Andrén, Yiannis Ioannidis, and Maria Dimaki. "Ecology and conservation of the Milos viper, Macrovipera schweizeri (Werner, 1935)." Amphibia-Reptilia 20, no. 4 (1999): 355-375.

Thanou, Evanthia, and Panagiotis Kornilios. "Next-generation sequencing yields the complete mitochondrial genome of the endangered Milos viper Macrovipera schweizeri (Reptilia, Viperidae)." Mitochondrial DNA Part B 3, no. 2 (2018): 1250-1251.

Chowdhury, Abhinandan, Christina N. Zdenek, James S. Dobson, Lachlan A. Bourke, Raul Soria, and Bryan G. Fry. "Clinical implications of differential procoagulant toxicity of the palearctic viperid genus Macrovipera, and the relative neutralization efficacy of antivenoms and enzyme inhibitors." Toxicology Letters 340 (2021): 77-88.

Degen, Robert, and Kinsey Brock. "Rare behavioral observations of the Milos Viper, Macrovipera schweizeri (Werner, 1935), on Sifnos Island, Greece." Herpetology Notes 14 (2021): 1357-1360.

Di Nicola, Matteo Riccardo, Andrea Pozzi, Ignazio Avella, Sergio Mezzadri, and Giovanni Paolino. "Taxonomy, biology and natural history of the Milos viper Macrovipera schweizeri (Werner, 1935): literature review and observations on autumnal activity and importance of residual pools." Spixiana 45, no. 1 (2022): 111-130.

Schulte, Lennart, Maik Damm, Ignazio Avella, Lilien Uhrig, Pelin Erkoc, Susanne Schiffmann, Robert Fürst et al. "Venomics of the milos viper (Macrovipera schweizeri) unveils patterns of venom composition and exochemistry across blunt-nosed viper venoms." Frontiers in molecular biosciences 10 (2023): 1254058.

Mebert, Konrad, Alessandro Cattaneo, Ioannis Ioannidis, Alexandru Strugariu, Nikolai Stümpel, and Francisco Martínez-Freiría. 2024. Macrovipera schweizeri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024: e.T12654A137843008. 

Avella, Ignazio, Maik Damm, Matteo R. Di Nicola, Josephine Dresler, Naşit İğci, Mert Kariş, Seyed Mahdi Kazemi et al. "The biology and toxinology of blunt-nosed vipers." npj Biodiversity 4, no. 1 (2025): 21.

Avella, Ignazio, Lennart Schulte, Maik Damm, Wolfgang Wüaster, Andreas Vilcinskas, and Tim Lüddecke. "Haemostasis-altering effects of Milos viper (Macrovipera schweizeri) venom." Toxicology in Vitro (2025): 106081.

Champagne, Patrick S., Lorenzo Seneci, and Bryan G. Fry. "Heating up the blunts: Prothrombin activation, with Factor Va as an obligate cofactor, is the dominant procoagulant mechanism of blunt-nosed viper venoms (Macrovipera Species)." Toxins 17, no. 8 (2025): 398.

The reference genome of Macrovipera schweizeri has been sequenced, assembled and is in the process of being annotated.