Dramatic dietary shift maintains sequestered toxins in chemically defended snakes

Unlike other snakes, most species of Rhabdophis possess glands in their dorsal skin, sometimes limited to the neck, known as nucho-dorsal and nuchal glands, respectively. Those glands contain powerful cardiotonic steroids known as bufadienolides, which can be deployed as a defense against predators....

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Autores principales: Yoshida, Tatsuya, Ujiie, Rinako, Savitzky, Alan H., Jono, Teppei, Inoue, Takato, Yoshinaga, Naoko, Aburaya, Shunsuke, Aoki, Wataru, Takeuchi, Hirohiko, Ding, Li, Chen, Qin, Cao, Chengquan, Tsai, Tein-Shun, de Silva, Anslem, Mahaulpatha, Dharshani, Nguyen, Tao Thien, Tang, Yezhong, Mori, Naoki, Mori, Akira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2020
Materias:
Biological Sciences
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7084117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32094167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1919065117

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