Fatal attraction: Adaptations to prey on native frogs imperil snakes after invasion of toxic toads

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1668, 2009, Pages 2813-2818

  Hagman, Mattias ^a,b   Phillips, Benjamin L ^a   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acanthophis praelongus; Ambush predator; Bufo marinus; Elapidae; Foraging mode; Invasive species

Indexed keywords

TOXIN;

CHEMICAL DEFENSE; FITNESS; FROG; INVASIVE SPECIES; MORTALITY; NATIVE SPECIES; PREDATION; SELECTION; SNAKE; SPECIALIZATION; TOAD; TOXIC ORGANISM; VULNERABILITY;

ACANTHOPHIS PRAELONGUS; ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FITNESS; FORAGER; FROG; INTOXICATION; LABORATORY; NONHUMAN; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SNAKE; SPECIES; TOAD; VERTEBRATE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ACANTHOPHIS ANTARCTICUS; ACANTHOPHIS PRAELONGUS; ANURA; BUFO MARINUS; ELAPIDAE; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67650872940     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0192     Document Type: Article

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