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Science 11 July 1975:
Vol. 189. no. 4197, pp. 151 - 152
DOI: 10.1126/science.1138374
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Science, Vol 189, Issue 4197, 151-152
Copyright © 1975 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Tetrodotoxin: Occurrence in atelopid frogs of Costa Rica

YH Kim, GB Brown, and FA Mosher

The potent neurotoxin tetrodotoxin, which has previously been found in puffer fish of the order Tetraordontiformes, a goby (Gobius criniger), and the California newt (Taricha torosa), has now been identified in the skins of frogs of the genus Atelopus from Costa Rica.


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