Dramatic dietary shift maintains sequestered toxins in chemically defended snakes

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Evolution of nuchal glands, unusual defensive organs of Asian natricine snakes (Serpentes: Colubridae), inferred from a molecular phylogeny

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Do tiger keelback snakes (Rhabdophis tigrinus) recognize how toxic they are?

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Phylogenetic Systematics of Dart-Poison Frogs and Their Relatives Revisited (Anura: Dendrobatoidea)

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Morphology of the nucho-dorsal glands and related defensive displays in three species of Asian natricine snakes

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Toxin-resistant isoforms of Na+/K+-ATPase in snakes do not closely track dietary specialization on toads

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How herbivores coopt plant defenses: natural selection, specialization, and sequestration

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Widespread convergence in toxin resistance by predictable molecular evolution

(2015) Beata Ujvari et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Na+/K+-ATPase resistance and cardenolide sequestration: basal adaptations to host plant toxins in the milkweed bugs (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae: Lygaeinae)

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Chemical ecology of insect–plant interactions: ecological significance of plant secondary metabolites

(2014) Ritsuo Nishida   BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Active foraging for toxic prey during gestation in a snake with maternal provisioning of sequestered chemical defences

(2014) Y. Kojima et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sequestered defensive toxins in tetrapod vertebrates: principles, patterns, and prospects for future studies

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Host Shifts from Lamiales to Brassicaceae in the Sawfly Genus Athalia

(2012) Sebastian E. W. Opitz et al.   PLoS One

Community-wide convergent evolution in insect adaptation to toxic cardenolides by substitutions in the Na,K-ATPase

(2012) S. Dobler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Parallel Molecular Evolution in an Herbivore Community

(2012) Y. Zhen et al.   SCIENCE

Chemical investigations of defensive steroid sequestration by the Asian snake Rhabdophis tigrinus

(2011) Deborah A. Hutchinson et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

Nuchal glands: a novel defensive system in snakes

(2011) Akira Mori et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

A review of chemical ecology in poison frogs

(2011) Ralph A. Saporito et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

Renal Ischemia Regulates Marinobufagenin Release in Humans

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Plant chemistry and insect sequestration

(2009) Sebastian E. W. Opitz et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

Arthropod Alkaloids in Poison Frogs: A Review of the ‘Dietary Hypothesis’

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