Discovery of skin alkaloids in a miniaturized eleutherodactylid frog from Cuba

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 414-418

  Rodríguez, Ariel ^a   Poth, Dennis ^b   Schulz, Stefan ^b   Vences, Miguel ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y SISTEMÁTICA   (Cuba)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Cuba; Eleutherodactylidae; Eleutherodactylus iberia; Eleutherodactylus orientalis; Pumiliotoxins

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; AMPHIBIAN VENOM;

ALKALOID; COLOR MORPH; DIETARY SHIFT; FROG; MITE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PHYLOGENETICS; SKIN; SPECIALIZATION; STOMACH CONTENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CUBA; DIET; FROGS AND TOADS; MALE; MITE; SKIN;

ALKALOIDS; AMPHIBIAN VENOMS; ANIMALS; ANURA; CUBA; DIET; MALE; MITES; SKIN;

CUBA;

ACARI; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ARTHROPODA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS ORIENTALIS; ORIBATIDA;

EID: 80051697662     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0844     Document Type: Article

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