The Mysterious Mauritian Red Nectar: A Selective Toxicant? |
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| Authors: | Herbert S Rosenkranz Gilles Klopman |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA Tel.: +1-412-6243001, Fax: +1-412-6243309, US;(2) Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA, US |
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| Abstract: | Using knowledge-based computational structure-activity relationship models, it is hypothesized that the aurone responsible
for the uniquely red nectar of several Mauritian bird-pollinated plants functions as a repellant of nectar-robbing or herbivorous
mammalian species.
Received: 30 November 1998 / Accepted: 18 March 1999 |
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