Sentences with phrase «when blenny»
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When predators attack, blennies on Pacific coral reefs bite back with a venom that makes the attackers so dizzy that they open their mouths to let the prey out
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Yet when Casewell, Fry and colleagues put together an evolutionary family tree for the blennies, the one genus with both fangs and venom branched off amid four genera that are all fang and no toxins, Casewell, Fry and colleagues report in the April 24 Current Biology.
When the researchers did a proteomic analysis of extracted fang blenny venom, they found three venom components — a neuropeptide that occurs in cone snail venom, a lipase similar to one from scorpions, and an opioid peptide.