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Sequestration and biosynthesis of cyanogenic glucosides in passion vine butterflies and consequences for the diversification of their host plants.
Érika C Pinheiro de Castro, Mika Zagrobelny, Juan Pablo Zurano, Márcio Zikan Cardoso, René Feyereisen, Søren Bak
Jan 20, 2020
The colorful heliconiine butterflies are distasteful to predators due to their content of defense compounds called cyanogenic glucosides (CNglcs), which they biosynthesize from aliphatic amino acids. Heliconiine larvae feed...