Testing chemical defence based on pyrrolizidine alkaloids

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 985-991

  Cardoso, Márcio Zikán ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; ANTI-PREDATOR DEFENCE; CHEMICAL DEFENCE; VERTEBRATE PREDATOR;

ARCTIIDAE; AVES; CORYPHOSPINGUS PILEATUS; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030777955     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0505     Document Type: Article

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