Melyrid beetles (Choresine): A putative source for the batrachotoxin alkaloids found in poison-dart frogs and toxic passerine birds

Batrachotoxins are neurotoxic steroidal alkaloids first isolated from a Colombian poison-dart frog and later found in certain passerine birds of New Guinea. Neither vertebrate group is thought to produce the toxins de novo, but instead they likely sequester them from dietary sources. Here we describ...

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Publicado no:	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Principais autores:	Dumbacher, John P., Wako, Avit, Derrickson, Scott R., Samuelson, Allan, Spande, Thomas F., Daly, John W.
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado em:	National Academy of Sciences 2004
Assuntos:	Physical Sciences
Acesso em linha:	https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC528779/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15520388/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407197101
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