Do predators prefer toxic animals? A case of chemical discrimination by an Asian snake that sequesters firefly toxins

Several Asian natricine snakes of the genus Rhabdophis feed on toads and sequester steroidal cardiac toxins known as bufadienolides (BDs) from them. A recent study revealed that species of the Rhabdophis nuchalis Group ingest lampyrine fireflies to sequester BDs. Although several species of fireflie...

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Autores principales: Fukuda, Masaya, Ujiie, Rinako, Inoue, Takato, Chen, Qin, Cao, Chengquan, Ding, Li, Mori, Naoki, Mori, Akira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9892790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36743225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoab102

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9892790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36743225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoab102

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