Arthropod-frog connection: Decahydroquinoline and pyrrolizidine alkaloids common to microsympatric myrmicine ants and dendrobatid frogs

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 73-85

  Daly, John W ^a   Martin Garraffo, H ^a   Jain, Poonam ^a   Spande, Thomas F ^a   Snelling, Roy R ^b   Jaramillo, César ^c   Stanley Rand, A ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Coccinellid beetles; Coccinellines; Decahydroquinolines; Dendrobatid frogs; Indolizidines; Millipedes; Myrmicine ants; Pyrrol izidines; Pyrrolidines

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; DECAHYDROQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; HISTRIONICOTOXIN; INDOLIZIDINE ALKALOID; PUMILIOTOXIN; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID; PYRROLIZIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTHROPOD; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; FROG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANT; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; SKIN GLAND;

DENDROBATES AURATUS;

EID: 0342980302     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005437427326     Document Type: Article

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