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Polyphyletic origin of toxic Pitohui birds suggests widespread occurrence of toxicity in corvoid birds

Pitohui birds from New Guinea have been found to contain a toxin otherwise only found in neotropical poison arrow frogs. Pitohuis have been considered to be monophyletic and thus toxicity is thought to have evolved once in birds. Here, we show that Pitohuis, rather than being a tight-knit group, are...

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Hlavní autoři: Jønsson, Knud A, Bowie, Rauri C.K, Norman, Janette A, Christidis, Les, Fjeldså, Jon
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: The Royal Society 2007
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On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2412923/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18055416
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2007.0464
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