Natural selection and pain meet at a sodium channel

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Item Type:	Editorial
Title:	Natural selection and pain meet at a sodium channel
Creators Name:	Lewin, G.R.
Abstract:	Grasshopper mice can feed on toxic bark scorpions because they have evolved resistance to the pain normally caused by the toxin in the scorpion sting.
Keywords:	Food Chain, NAV1.7 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel, NAV1.8 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel, Pain, Predatory Behavior, Animals, Arvicolinae
Source:	Science
ISSN:	0036-8075
Publisher:	American Association for the Advancement of Science
Volume:	342
Number:	6157
Page Range:	428-429
Date:	25 October 2013
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1244375
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