Python mating mounds are rarely seen in Florida, due to being deep in the state’s wetlands. Mating season is November through April and Kimmel reports the two piles of snakes were found in early May, ...

Gene models were then combined across replicates using Stringtie2’s merge function with parameters “-F 0.5 -T 2 -f 0.1” and were exported for further analysis and integration as a gzipped GTF file.