Packaging and delivery of chemical weapons: a defensive trojan horse stratagem in chromodorid nudibranchs.

<h4>Background</h4>Storage of secondary metabolites with a putative defensive role occurs in the so-called mantle dermal formations (MDFs) that are located in the more exposed parts of the body of most and very likely all members of an entire family of marine mollusks, the chromodorid nu...

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Main Authors: Marianna Carbone, Margherita Gavagnin, Markus Haber, Yue-Wei Guo, Angelo Fontana, Emiliano Manzo, Gregory Genta-Jouve, Maria Tsoukatou, William B Rudman, Guido Cimino, Michael T Ghiselin, Ernesto Mollo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23620804/pdf/?tool=EBI