http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/11/04/coin-sized-frog-steals-becomes-mite-y-thanks-to-poisonous-diet/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/11/04/coin-sized-frog-steals-becomes-mite-y-thanks-to-poisonous-diet/#comment-9657 Walter S. Andriuzzi Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:23:06 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=2970#comment-9657 Mite-y, eh eh, got it the second time I read it... Some long time ago I read a paper on how some frog, from the Amazon I think, did the same thing. More precisely, they took the poison from "box mites", as they are called, possibly my favourite arthropod (as well as one of the most impossible family names: Phthiracaridae. Not that difficult to say, but try to write it...). Are the mites in this paper also from that group? (You know, "mite" is much more generic than "ants". Acari are the most species-rich arthropods after those damn insects :D) Mite-y, eh eh, got it the second time I read it…
Some long time ago I read a paper on how some frog, from the Amazon I think, did the same thing. More precisely, they took the poison from “box mites”, as they are called, possibly my favourite arthropod (as well as one of the most impossible family names: Phthiracaridae. Not that difficult to say, but try to write it…). Are the mites in this paper also from that group? (You know, “mite” is much more generic than “ants”. Acari are the most species-rich arthropods after those damn insects )

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