A poisonous surprise under the coat of the African crested rat

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1729, 2012, Pages 675-680

  Kingdon, Jonathan ^a   Agwanda, Bernard ^b   Kinnaird, Margaret ^c   O'Brien, Timothy ^d   Holland, Christopher ^a   Gheysens, Thomas ^a   Boulet Audet, Maxime ^a   Vollrath, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^c Mpala Research Station   (Kenya)

^d WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acokanthera; Aposematic; Lophiomys; Mammal; Ouabain; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

APOSEMATISM; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DICOTYLEDON; ELEPHANT; INVERTEBRATE; MORPHOLOGY; POISONING; RODENT; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; TOXICITY; TOXIN;

ACOKANTHERA; ANIMALIA; APOCYNACEAE; ELEPHANTIDAE; EUTHERIA; INVERTEBRATA; LOPHIOMYS; LOPHIOMYS IMHAUSI; MAMMALIA; STROPHANTHUS GRATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84855651243     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1169     Document Type: Article

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