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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2015
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| 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 |