image: A southern grasshopper mouse approaches and prepares to attack an Arizona bark scorpion. The bark scorpion prepares to defend itself. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 25 Oct., 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Ashlee Rowe at The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, and colleagues was titled, "Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel in Grasshopper Mice Defends Against Bark Scorpion Toxin." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of Matthew and Ashlee Rowe]