Ant Venom Includes More than One Pain-Producing Peptide (2 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Ant Venom Includes More than One Pain-Producing Peptide (2 of 4)

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The giant red bull ant, Myrmecia gulosa. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sep. 12th 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.D. Robinson at University of Queensland in St. Lucia, QLD, Australia, and colleagues was titled, "A comprehensive portrait of the venom of the giant red bull ant, Myrmecia gulosa, reveals a hyperdiverse hymenopteran toxin gene family."

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[Credit: Elvind Undheim & Samuel Robinson]

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