A Natural Toxic Defense System: Cardenolides in Butterflies versus Birds

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 443, Issue 1, 1985, Pages 171-188

  BROWER, LINCOLN PIERSON ^a   FINK, LINDA SUSAN ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDENOLIDE; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TOXIN;

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; EATING; LEPIDOPTERA; PREDATION; TASTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONDITIONING; FOOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMAL; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BIRDS; BUTTERFLIES; CARDENOLIDES; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EATING; LEPIDOPTERA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TASTE;

EID: 0021893345     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1985.tb27072.x     Document Type: Article

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