Target-Specificity in Scorpions; Comparing Lethality of Scorpion Venoms across Arthropods and Vertebrates

Scorpions use their venom in defensive situations as well as for subduing prey. Since some species of scorpion use their venom more in defensive situations than others, this may have led to selection for differences in effectiveness in defensive situations. Here, we compared the LD(50) of the venom...

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Autores principales: van der Meijden, Arie, Koch, Bjørn, van der Valk, Tom, Vargas-Muñoz, Leidy J., Estrada-Gómez, Sebastian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5666359/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28976932
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins9100312

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5666359/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28976932
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins9100312

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