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Ecological Chemistry

Certain insects feed on plants that make substances that are poisonous to vertebrates. Hence the insects are unpalatable to bird predators. These relations have surprising results

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 220 Issue 2This article was originally published with the title “Ecological Chemistry” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 220 No. 2 (), p. 22
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0269-22