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Toxic Flatworm Egg Plates Serve as a Possible Source of Tetrodotoxin for Pufferfish

The pufferfish Takifugu niphobles (at present Takifugu alboplumbeus) possesses highly concentrated tetrodotoxin (TTX), an extremely potent neurotoxin that provides effective protection from predators, at least at the larval stages. However, the source of the toxin has remained unclear. Recently, DNA...

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Publicado en:Toxins (Basel)
Main Authors: Okabe, Taiki, Oyama, Hikaru, Kashitani, Maho, Ishimaru, Yuta, Suo, Rei, Sugita, Haruo, Itoi, Shiro
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6669758/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31373322
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins11070402
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