Garden slugs and snails could now be considered venomous, study finds
According to scientists, common garden snails and snails can be considered poisonous.
In a study that shakes the definition of venom, researchers explain that it is not only the bites of the snakes and spiders classified as poisonous, but also the saliva of aphids and chemicals released by slimy insects.
This change in the definition will mean that tens of thousands of additional species can now be considered toxic.
According to the research published in the journal Ecology and Trends in EvolutionSubstances such as saliva function as the same evolutionary function: manipulating the body of another organism against its interests.
Directed by the poison expert of the Natural History Museum, Dr Ronald Jenner, the article argues that Venom should be redefined as an internal secretion given by an organism to make a physiological change in another living organism.
This is the essence of plants and toxic secretions to deactivate plant defenses, and insects such as garden snails and slimy insects that use toxins to manipulate sexual wives, insects using poison on the press and slugs and slugs insects.
Dr Jenner said: “This redefinition helps us to understand Venom as a widespread strategy, not a narrow weapon, but as a widespread strategy.
“If you look at what a mosquito hose is on your skin, injects toxins that suppress the immune system, so that the animal is at a molecular level, a molecular level, a rabbit, a rabbit bite.
“They work exactly on the same system: a arena of conflict between the two organisms that injected toxins are mediating. And this poison.”
Researchers also found that donkeys, bees and ants, insects and aphids were initially used on plants instead of animals.
Slug insects and snails also inject toxins to potential partners during sexual dryness. Examples vary from the snails that hit the darts covered with bioactive molecules to manipulate their partners against their interests, to the male Blowflies, which injects a secretion of prickly Phallus women from re -mating.
Researchers claim that these sexual secretions also fit into poison definitions because substances are internal to manipulate the recipient in the conflict of evolutionary interests.
The authors hopes that this redefinition can traditionally mean that scientists from separate areas can unite powers to accelerate the understanding of poison biology.
