The way poison frogs keep from poisoning themselves is complicated

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The way poison frogs keep from poisoning themselves is complicated
Genetic change that protects from a toxin can cause ripple effects
By
Laurel Hamers
11:56am, September 22, 2017
 

For some poison dart frogs, gaining resistance to one of their own toxins came with a price.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/way-poison-frogs-keep-poisoning-themselves-complicated

The genetic change that gives one group of frogs immunity to a particularly lethal toxin also disrupts a key chemical messenger in the brain. But the frogs have managed to sidestep the potentially damaging side effect through other genetic tweaks, researchers report in the Sept. 22 Science.