Skin microbiome of poisonous newts facilitates adaptive tetrodotoxin production
Wednesday, April 8, 2020 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
The textbook example in ecology, literally, goes like this: The poisonous rough-skinned newt and the garter snake are locked in an evolutionary arms race. The more resistant the snake becomes to the newt's neurotoxic defense, the more deadly toxin the newt produces—in some newts, enough to kill two dozen humans.