Oribatid mites and skin alkaloids in poison frogs

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 555-556

  Raspotnig, Günther ^a,b   Norton, Roy A ^c   Heethoff, Michael ^a  

^a Inst Zool an Karl Franzens Univ   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; AMPHIBIAN VENOM;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FROGS AND TOADS; MALE; NOTE; SKIN;

ALKALOIDS; AMPHIBIAN VENOMS; ANIMALS; ANURA; MALE; SKIN;

ACARI; DENDROBATIDAE; ORIBATIDA;

EID: 79960191822     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.1113     Document Type: Note

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