Sentences with phrase «poison frogs use»

Poison frogs use toxins against vertebrate predators, bacteria and mosquitoes.

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While on a trip to Panama, lead researcher Konrad Rykaczewski learned that the poison dart frogs he saw used an efficient self - protection mechanism: when provoked, they secreted toxins through their skin to deter hungry predators.

Frog poisons, for instance, can be used to fight insects such as the mosquito.

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Lauren uses poison frogs as a model for understanding how variation in predation and spatial structure of the environment has driven the evolution of chemical defences and parental behaviors.