Scorpions from Mexico: From Species Diversity to Venom Complexity.

ABSTRACT: Scorpions are among the oldest terrestrial arthropods, which are distributed worldwide, except for Antarctica and some Pacific islands. Scorpion envenomation represents a public health problem in several parts of the world. Mexico harbors the highest diversity of scorpions in the world, including some of the world's medically important scorpion species. The systematics and diversity of Mexican scorpion fauna has not been revised in the past decade; and due to recent and exhaustive collection efforts as part of different ongoing major revisionary systematic projects, our understanding of this diversity has changed compared with previous assessments. Given the presence of several medically important scorpion species, the study of their venom in the country is also important. In the present c

SUBMITTER: Santibanez-Lopez CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4728524 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature