BIOL 1F25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Saxitoxin, Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning, Tide Pool
25 Feb 2016
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Lec 13: ttx is also found in: california newts, gastropod molluscs, skin of atelopid. Neurotoxins (cont"d: blue-ringed octopus frogs, some species of eastern salamander and eggs of horseshoe crabs from japan to australia. : ~ size of a golf ball - lives in tide pools in the pacific ocean: considered one of the most poisonous animals in the world. Also contains ttx: blue-rings only appear when the animal is about to attack! Research article: how does the blue-ringed octopus (h. lunulata) flash its blue rings? journal of experimental biology 215:p3752.
