Selected to survive and kill: Tityus serrulatus, the Brazilian yellow scorpion.

Annually, more than 1.2 million scorpion stings and more than 3,000 deaths occur worldwide. Tityus serrulatus Lutz and Mello, 1922 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) is the most medically relevant species in Brazil where it is spreading rapidly and causing over 90,000 cases of envenomation yearly. We monitored...

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Main Authors: Ricardo José Gonzaga Pimenta, Pedro Ferreira Pinto Brandão-Dias, Hortênsia Gomes Leal, Anderson Oliveira do Carmo, Bárbara Bruna Ribeiro de Oliveira-Mendes, Carlos Chávez-Olórtegui, Evanguedes Kalapothakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214075