Metabolic Detoxification: Mechanism of Insect Resistance to Plant Psoralens
- 22 July 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 221 (4608), 374-376
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.221.4608.374
Abstract
Larvae of the black swallowtail butterfly, Papilio polyxenes Stoll, forage successfully on plants that contain high levels of photosensitizing psoralens. These insects rapidly detoxify psoralens, particularly in the midgut tissue prior to absorption, with the result that appreciable levels of unmetabolized phototoxin do not enter the body circulation where deleterious light-induced interactions with dermal or subdermal tissues would occur.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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