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Researcher’s career devoted to investigating the bioactive alkaloids in the skin of frogs. By analyzing frogs raised in CAPTIVITY, he has established that frogs sequester alkaloids from the ants, beetles, & millipedes they feed on. Now researchers have found a exception to the rule: Australian frogs of the genus “Pseudophryne” synthesize complex indolic alkaloids called “PSEU DOPHRYNAMINES”, these alkaloids are unique to Pseudophryne frogs. The investigated frogs, which were caught in the wild contain mostly another class of alkaloids called PUMILIOTOXINS, & only traces of pseudophrynamines. However frogs that have been grown in captivity contain only pseudophry namines, unless they are fed pumiliotoxins. “It looks like these frogs turn off their own biosynthetic machinery when they can get alkaloids from the diet” |
| UPDATE | 04.02 |
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