| Title | Predators make (temporary) escape from coevolutionary arms race |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2008 |
| Authors | Gross, Liza |
| Secondary Title | PLoS Biology |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pagination | p.e75 |
| Date Published | 2008, Mar. 11 |
| Call Number | OSU Libraries: Digital Open Access |
| Keywords | amphibians, Common garter snake = Thamnophis sirtalis, evolution, predation, reptiles, Rough-skinned newt = Taricha granulosa, Yachats River |
| Notes | The rough-skinned newt has a potent defense, a neurotoxin, tetrodotoxin, which it secretes from its skin glands. Tetrodotoxin is one of the most poisonous substances in the entire animal kingdom, and one would think it would make the newt invulnerable. Not so. The common garter snake has evolved a defense that enables it to devour rough-skinned newts with gusto. This fascinating article discusses studies at 28 West Coast sites of the evolving relationship between predator and prey and includes a photograph that was taken at Yachats of a garter snake swallowing a rough-skinned newt. |
| URL | https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0060075 |
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060075 |
| Series Title | Plos Biology |
