Animal Research

Nonvenomous Asian snakes borrow defensive poison from toxic toads

Published in Biotech Law Weekly, February 23rd, 2007

Most snakes are born with poisonous bites they use for defense. But non-poisonous snakes must borrow their deadly venom from another animal. That's what happens in the relationship between an Asian snake and a species of toad, according to a team of researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS).

Herpetologists Deborah Hutchinson, Alan Savitzky of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., and colleagues a recent online issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Hutchinson studied the Asian snake Rhabdoph is tigrinus and its relationship to a species of...

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