Prescient fiction.
The phenomenon described in your article "Toxin Takeout: Frogs borrow poison for skin from ants" (SN: 5/8/04, p. 291), an animal manufacturing natural poisons using chemical precursors in the environment, has been described before--in a work of science fiction! In Arthur Herzog's 1974 novel The Swarm, later made into a movie, killer bees learned to metabolize organophosphate organophosphate /or·ga·no·phos·phate/ (or?gah-no-fos´fat) an organic ester of phosphoric or thiophosphoric acid; such compounds are powerful acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and are used as insecticides and nerve gases. insecticides and incorporate those molecules into their venom. DAVE A file sharing program from Thursby Software Systems, Inc., Arlington, TX (www.thursby.com) that allows a Macintosh to share files with a PC. Designed specifically for and needing installation only on the Mac, DAVE works with Microsoft's native SMB/CIFS file sharing protocols and uses LEISING, LOWELL, MICH v. i. 1. To lie hid; to skulk; to act, or carry one's self, sneakingly. .
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