Firefly "femmes fatales" acquire defensive steroids (lucibufagins) from their firefly prey

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 94, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 9723-9728

  Eisner, Thomas ^a   Goetz, Michael A ^a,b   Hill, David E ^a,c   Smedley, Scott R ^a   Meinwald, Jerrold ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coleoptera: Lampyridae; Phidippus; Photinus; Photuris; Steroidal pyrones

Indexed keywords

LUCIBUFAGIN; PYRONE DERIVATIVE; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; PYRONES;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; COLEOPTERA; LAMPYRIDAE; PHIDIPPUS; PHOTINUS; PHOTURIS;

EID: 0030987671     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.18.9723     Document Type: Article

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