The relationship between poison frog chemical defenses and age, body size, and sex

INTRODUCTION: Amphibians secrete a wide diversity of chemicals from skin glands as defense against predators, parasites, and pathogens. Most defensive chemicals are produced endogenously through biosynthesis, but poison frogs sequester lipophilic alkaloids from dietary arthropods. Alkaloid compositi...

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Autores principales: Jeckel, Adriana M., Saporito, Ralph A., Grant, Taran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
Materias:
Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4591705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26435730
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-015-0120-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4591705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26435730
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-015-0120-2

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