Not all toxic butterflies are toxic: high intra- and interspecific variation in sequestration in subtropical swallowtails

Many herbivorous insects make use of plant secondary metabolites by consuming and storing these toxic compounds in their body tissue or integument, thereby obtaining chemical defense against their natural enemies. Swallowtail butterflies in the tribe Troidini (Papilionidae) sequester toxic alkaloi...

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Autores principales: Dimarco, Romina Daniela, Fordyce, James A.
Formato: info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2018
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/2247
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.2025
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2025

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