The problem of pitviper bite in field researchers working in Middle America (Mexico to Panama) was studied using case histories of nine biologists and one project employee bitten during the period of ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We investigated allozyme variation from Costa Rican populations of the fer-de-lance, Bothrops asper. Blood samples were taken from a total of ...
The venom from Bothrops Asper, a Costa Rican lancehead snake, can cause debilitating damage to muscle tissue. Photo: Vanesa Zarzosa. What makes a soldier switch sides? That is a really good question.
Climate change might have a nasty bite. A new study on snakebite rates in Costa Rica has found that the bite rate shoots up during El Niño – at both the hot and cold parts of the cycle – and that the ...
You really, really don’t want to get bitten by Bothrops asper, a pit viper commonly found in Central and South America. The myotoxins in its venom can kill if not treated quickly, and it’s one of the ...
Evolutionary biologist Christopher Dick was collecting seeds in the Brazilian Amazon when he was bitten by a fer-de-lance (Bothrops asper), one of the rainforest's most notorious venomous snakes. He ...
Andreas Hougaard Laustsen receives funding from Wellcome, the European Research Council, the Villum Foundation, and Innovation Fund Denmark. Bruno Lomonte receives funding from Vicerrectoría de ...
JACÓ, Puntarenas — While we were admiring a curled-up Bothrops asper pit viper, the infamous snake that kills more people than any other in Costa Rica, I noticed a strange-looking fly that had landed ...
The chemical make-up of a snake's venom varies enormously depending on where the snake lives and how old it is. That's the conclusion of scientists who claim to have made the first detailed comparison ...
A promising antibody failed testing. This is good news for developing a broad-spectrum antidote against the world's most dangerous snake venoms. What makes a soldier switch sides? That is a really ...
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