Whole-body protein turnover reveals the cost of detoxification of secondary metabolites in a vertebrate browser
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2013
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Au, Jessie
Ford (previously Marsh), Karen
Wallis, Ian
Foley, William
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The detoxification limitation hypothesis predicts that the metabolism and biotransformation of plant secondary metabolites (PSMs) elicit a cost to herbivores. There have been many attempts to estimate these costs to mammalian herbivores in terms of energy
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Keywords: Cost; Detoxification; Herbivore; Nitrogen; Plant secondary metabolite; Protein turnover
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Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology
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