Why poison dart frogs don’t poison themselves

(Phys.org)—A pair of researchers with the State University of New York has found the source of poison dart frogs’ immunity from their own poison. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sho-Ya Wang and Ging Kuo Wang describe testing frog muscle-derived amino acids in rat muscles to determine if one of them might be responsible for preventing muscle from seizing.