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1.	Bonnet,, X., Naulleau G. and Mauget, R. (1992). Cycle sexuel de la femelle de Vipera aspis (Squamata, Viperidae), importance des réserves et aspects métaboliques. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 117:179-290.
2.	Bonnet, X. and Naulleau, G. (1993). Relations entre la glycémie et l'activité saisonnière chez Vipera aspis. Amphibia-Reptilia 14:295-306.
3.	Bonnet, X. and Naulleau, G. (1994). A body condition index (BCI) in snakes to study reproduction. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences 317:34-41.
4.	Bonnet, X., Naulleau, G. and Mauget, R. (1994). The influence of body condition on 17-ß Estradiol levels in relation to vitellogenesis in female Vipera aspis (Reptilia, Viperidae). General and Comparative Endocrinology 93:424-437.
5.	Naulleau, G. and Bonnet, X. (1995). Structure of a wild population of Vipera aspis measured with a body condition index: implications for reproductive strategy. In: Scientia Herpetologica (G. Llorente, X. Santos, M.A. Carretero, Eds.), pp.255 -258. Association of Herpetologists Espańola, Barcelona.
6.	Bonnet, X. and Naulleau, G. (1995). Estimation of body reserves in living snakes using a body condition index. In: Scientia Herpetologica (G. Llorente, X. Santos, M.A. Carretero, Eds.), pp. 237-240. Association of Herpetologists Espańola, Barcelona.
7.	Naulleau, G. and Bonnet, X. (1995). Reproductive ecology, body fat reserves and foraging mode in females of two contrasted snake species: Vipera aspis (terrestrial) and Elaphe longissima (semi-arboreal). Amphibia-Reptilia 16:37-46.
8.	Schmidlin, L., Bonnet, X. and Tégé, C. (1996). Cannibalism in Coluber viridiflavus. Herpetological Review 27(3):143.
9.	Bonnet, X. and Naulleau, G. (1996). Are body reserves important for reproduction in male dark green snakes (Coluber viridiflavus)? Herpetologica 52:137-146.
10.	Bonnet, X. and Naulleau, G. (1996). Catchability in snakes: consequences on breeding frequency estimates. Canadian Journal of Zoology 74:233-239.
11.	Naulleau, G. and Bonnet, X. (1996). Body condition threshold for breeding in a viviparous snake. Oecologia 107:301-306.
12.	Bonnet, X. (1997). Influence of size on survival in new-born Vipera aspis. Amphibia-Reptilia 18:107-112.
13.	Bonnet, X., Bradshaw, S.D. and Shine, R. (1998). Capital versus income breeding: an ectothemic perspective. Oikos 83:333-341.
14.	Bonnet, X., Shine, R., Naulleau, G. and Vacher-Vallas, M. (1998). Sexual dimorphism in snakes: different reproductive roles favour different body plans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 265:1-5.
15.	Bonnet, X., Naulleau, G., Lourdais, O. and Vacher-Vallas, M. (1999). Growth in the asp viper (Vipera aspis L.): insights from long term field study. In: Current Studies in Herpetology (C. Miaud and R. Guyetant, Eds.), pp. 63-69. Societas Europaea Herpetologica, Le Bourget du Lac.
16.	Lagarde, F., Bonnet, X., Naulleau, G., Corbin, J., Bahloul, K. and Laurent, J. (1999). Short annual activity period in Testudo horsfieldii: consequences on daily displacements. In: Current Studies in Herpetology (C. Miaud and R. Guyetant, Eds.), pp. 249-253. Societas Europaea Herpetologica, Le Bourget du Lac.
17.	Zuffi, M. and Bonnet, X. (1999). Italian subspecies of the asp viper, Vipera aspis (Linnaeus, 1758): patterns of variability and distribution. Italian Journal of Zoology 66:87-95.
18.	Bonnet, X., Naulleau, G. and Shine, R. (1999). The dangers of leaving home: dispersal and mortality in snakes. Biological Conservation 89:39-50.
19.	Bonnet, X., Bradshaw, S.D., Shine, R. and Pearson, D. (1999). Why do snakes have eyes? The (non-) effect of blindness in island tiger snakes. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 46:267-272.
20.	Vacher-Vallas, M., Bonnet, X., and Naulleau, G. (1999). Relations entre les comportements sexuels et les accouplements chez Vipera aspis: étude en milieu naturel. Revue d’Ecologie, Terre et Vie 54:375-391.
21.	Naulleau, G., Bonnet, X., Vacher-Vallas, M, Shine, R. and Lourdais, O. (1999). Does less-than-annual production of offspring by female vipers (Vipera aspis) mean less-than-annual mating? Journal of Herpetology 33:688-691.
22.	Bonnet, X., Naulleau, G., Shine, R. and Lourdais, O. (1999). What is the appropriate time scale for measuring costs of reproduction in a capital breeder such as the aspic viper? Evolutionary Ecology 13:485-497.
23.	Bonnet, X., Naulleau, G., Shine, R. and Lourdais, O. (2000). Reproductive versus ecological advantages to larger body size in female Vipera aspis. Oikos 89:509-518.
24.	Shine, R. and Bonnet, X. (2000). Snakes: a new "model organism" in ecological research? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15:221-222.
25.	Bonnet, X., Lagarde, F., Henen, B.T., Corbin, J., Nagy, K.A., Naulleau, G., Balhoul, K., Chastel, O., Legrand, A. and Cambag, R. (2001). Sexual dimorphism in steppe tortoises: influence of the environment and sexual selection on body shape and mobility. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 72:357-372.
26.	Bonnet, X., Naulleau, G., Bradshaw, D. and Shine, R. (2001). Changes in plasma progesterone in relation to vitellogenesis and gestation in the viviparous snake, Vipera aspis. General and Comparative Endocrinology 121: 84-94.
27.	Bonnet, X., Naulleau, G., Shine, R. and Lourdais, O. (2001). Short-term versus long-term effects of food intake on reproductive output in a viviparous snake (Vipera aspis). Oikos 92:297-308.
28.	Lagarde, F., Bonnet, X., Henen, B.T., Corbin, J., Nagy, K.A. and Naulleau, G. (2001). Sexual size dimorphism in the steppe tortoise (Testudo horsfieldii): growth, maturity and individual variation. Canadian Journal of Zoology 79:1433-1441.
29.	Pearson, D., Shine, R., Bonnet, X., Williams, A., Jennings, B. and Lourdais, O. (2001). Ecological notes on crowned snakes, Elapognathus coronatus, from the Archipelago of the Recherche in southwestern Australia. Australian Zoologist 31:610-617.
30.	Bonnet, X., Shine, R., Naulleau, G. and Thiburce, C. (2001). Plastic vipers: environmental influences on the size and shape of Gaboon vipers, Bitis gabonica. Journal of Zoology 255:341-351.
31.	Henen, B.T., Nagy, K.A., Bonnet, X. and Lagarde, F. (2001). Clutch size and fecundity of wild Horsfield’s tortoises (Testudo horsfieldi): time and body size effects. Chelonii 3:135-143.
32.	Bonnet, X., Shine, R. and Lourdais, O. (2002). Taxonomic chauvinism: Is research on "model organisms" easier to publish than equivalent work on less "popular" species. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17:1-3.
33.	Lourdais, O., Bonnet, X., Shine, R., DeNardo, D., Naulleau, G. and Guillon, M. (2002). Capital-breeding and reproductive effort in a variable environment: a longitudinal study of a viviparous snake. Journal of Animal Ecology 71:470-479.
34.	Lourdais, O., Bonnet, X. and Doughty, P. (2002). Costs of anorexia during pregnancy in a viviparous snake (Vipera aspis). Journal of Experimental Zoology 292:487-493.
35.	Lagarde, F., Bonnet, X., Corbin, J., Henen, B. and Nagy, K. (2002). A short spring before a long jump: the ecological challenge to the steppe tortoise (Testudo horsfieldi). Canadian Journal of Zoology 80:493-502.
36.	Bonnet, X., Pearson, D., Ladyman, M., Lourdais, L. and Bradshaw, D. (2002). “Heaven” for serpents? A mark-recapture study of tiger snakes (Notechis scutatus) on Carnac Island, Western Australia. Austral Ecology 27:442-450.
37.	Lourdais, O., Bonnet, X., DeNardo, D. and Naulleau, G. (2002). Do sex divergences in reproductive eco-physiology translate into dimorphic demographic patterns? Population Ecology 44:241-249.
38.	Bonnet, X., Lourdais, O., Shine, R. and Naulleau, G. (2002). Reproduction in snakes (Vipera aspis): costs, currencies and complications. Ecology 83:2124-2135.
39.	Aubret, F., Bonnet, X., Shine, R. and Lourdais, O. (2002). Fat is sexy for females but not males: the influence of body reserves on reproduction in snakes (Vipera aspis). Hormones and Behavior 42:135-147.
40.	Shine, R., Sun, L., Zhao, E. and Bonnet, X. (2002). A review of 30 years of ecological research on the Shedao pit-viper. Herpetological Natural History 9:1-14.
41.	Aubret, F., Bonnet, X., Shine, R. and Maumelat, S. (2003). Clutch size manipulation, hatching success and offspring phenotype in the ball python (Python regius). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 78:263-272.
42.	Bonnet, X., Naulleau, G. and Lourdais, O. (2003). The benefits of complementary techniques: using capture-recapture and physiological approaches to understand costs of reproduction in the asp viper. In: Biology of the Vipers (G.W. Schuett, M. Höggren, M.E. Douglas and H.W. Greene, Eds.), pp. 483-495. Eagle Mountain Publishing, Utah.
43.	Lourdais, O., Bonnet, X., Shine, R. and Taylor, E. (2003). When does a reproducing female viper "decide" on her litter size? Journal of Zoology 259:123-129.
44.	Shine, R., Cogger, H.G., Reed, R.N., Shetty, S. and Bonnet, X. (2003). Aquatic and terrestrial locomotor speeds of amphibious sea-snakes (Serpentes, Laticaudidae). Journal of Zoology 259:261-268.
45.	Bonnet, X., Shine, R., Lourdais, O. and Naulleau, G. (2003). Measures of reproductive allometry are sensitive to sampling bias. Functional Ecology 17:39-49.
46.	Lagarde, F., Bonnet, X., Corbin, J., Henen, B., Nagy, K., Mardonov, B. and Naulleau, G. (2003). Foraging behaviour and diet of an ectothermic herbivore: Testudo horsfieldi. Ecography 26:236-242.
47.	Lagarde, F., Bonnet, X., Henen, B., Legrand, A., Corbin, J., Nagy, K. and Naulleau, G. (2003). Sex divergence in space utilisation in the steppe tortoise (Testudo horsfieldi). Canadian Journal of Zoology 81:380-387.
48.	Shine, R., Bonnet, X. and Cogger, H.G. (2003). Antipredator tactics of amphibious sea-snakes (Serpentes, Laticaudidae). Ethology 109:533-542.
49.	Ladyman, M., Bonnet, X., Lourdais, O., Bradshaw, D. and Naulleau, G. (2003). Gestation, thermoregulation and metabolism in a viviparous snake, Vipera aspis: evidence for fecundity-independent costs. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 76:497-510.
50.	Shine, R., Bonnet, X., Elphick, M.J. and Barrott, E.G. (2003). A novel foraging mode in snakes: browsing by the seasnake Emydocephalus annulatus (Serpentes, Hydrophiidae). Functional Ecology 18:16-24.
51.	Lagarde, F., Bonnet, X., Henen, B., Nagy, K., Corbin, J., Lacroix, A. and Trouvé, C. (2003). Reproductive hormone, protein, lipid, and mineral, concentrations in plasma of active, wild Testudo horsfieldi. General and Comparative Endocrinology 134:139-146.
52.	Aubret, F., Bonnet, X., Maumelat, S., Bradshaw, D. and Schwaner, T. (2004). Diet divergence, jaw size and scale counts in two neighbouring populations of Tiger snakes (Notechis scutatus). Amphibia-Reptilia 25(1):9-17.
53.	Lourdais, O., Shine, R., Bonnet, X., Naulleau, G. and Guillon, M. (2004). Climate affects offspring phenotypes in a viviparous snake. Oikos 104:551-560.
54.	Bonnet, X., Shine, R., and Lourdais, O. (2004). Does gender affect a scientist’s research output? Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 10:353-360.
55.	Barje, F., Slimani, T., El Mouden, E.H., Lagarde, F., Bonnet, X., and Ben Kaddour, R.K. (2005). Shrewd shrikes and spiny shrubs: a calamity for hatchling Moorish tortoise. Amphibia-Reptilia 26:113-115.
56.	Bonnet, X., Aubret, F., Lourdais, O., Ladyman, M., Bradshaw, D. and Maumelat, S. (2005). Do “quiet” places make animals placid? Island versus mainland tiger snakes. Ethology 111:573-592.
57.	Aubret, F., Bonnet, X., Shine, R. and Maumelat, S. (2005). Swimming and pregnancy in tiger snakes, Notechis scutatus. Amphibia-Reptilia 26:396-400.
58.	Lourdais, O., Brischoux, F., Shine, R. and Bonnet, X. (2005). Adaptive maternal cannibalism in snakes (Epicrates cenchria maurus, Boidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 84:767-774.
59.	Aubret, F., Bonnet, X., Harris, M. and Maumelat, S. (2005). Sex differences in body size and ectoparasite load in the ball python, Python regius. Journal of Herpetology 39:312-315.
60.	Bonnet, X., I. Ineich, and R. Shine. 2005. Terrestrial locomotion in sea snakes: effects of sex and species on cliff-climbing ability in sea kraits (Serpentes, Elapidae, Laticauda). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society85:433-441.
61.	Aubret, F., X. Bonnet, R. Shine, and S. Mamelaut. 2005. Why do female ball pythons (Python regius) coil so tightly around their eggs? Evolutionary Ecology Research 7:743-758.
62.	Lourdais, O., R. Shine, X. Bonnet, M. Sereau, F. Brischoux, and S. Servanty. 2005. Sex differences in body composition, performance and behaviour in the Colombian rainbow boa (Epicrates cenchria maurus, Boidae). Journal of Zoology (London) 269:175-182.
63.	Ineich, I, X. Bonnet, R. Shine, T. Shine, F. Brischoux, M. Lebreton, and L. Chirio. 2006. What, if anything, is a 'typical' viper? Biological attributes of basal viperid snakes (genus Causus Wagler, 1830). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 89:575-588.
64.	Ineich, I., X. Bonnet, F. Brischoux, M. Kulbicki, B. Séret, and R. Shine. 2007. Anguilliform fishes and sea-kraits: neglected predators in coral-reef ecosystems. Marine Biology: in press.