Spatial and temporal patterns of alkaloid variation in the poison frog Oophaga pumilio in Costa Rica and Panama over 30 years

Toxicon

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 757-778

  Saporito, Ralph A ^a   Donnelly, Maureen A ^a   Jain, Poonam ^b   Martin Garraffo, H ^b   Spande, Thomas F ^b   Daly, John W ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Ants; Beetles; Chemical defense; Decahydroquinolines; Dendrobatid frogs; Histrionicotoxins; Indolizidines; Mantellid frogs; Mites; Pumiliotoxins

Indexed keywords

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

ANT; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; COSTA RICA; DIETARY INTAKE; FROG; NONHUMAN; OOPHAGA PUMILIO; PANAMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ALKALOIDS; AMPHIBIAN VENOMS; ANIMALS; ANTS; ANURA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MITES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PANAMA; POISONS; SKIN; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE EXTRACTS;

ACARI; ANURA; ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; COSTA (OSTRACODE); DENDROBATIDAE; FORMICIDAE; MANTELLINAE;

EID: 34648858610     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2007.06.022     Document Type: Article

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