Michigan State University: The BEACON, the Bacteria and the Rough-Skinned Newt
April 08, 2020
April 08, 2020
EAST LANSING, Michigan, April 8 [TNSbiologyresearch] -- Michigan State University's College of Natural Science issued the following news:
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.
But in a st . . .
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.
But in a st . . .