TY - JOUR AU - Housecroft, Catherine E. PY - 2018/03/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Tolerating Toxins: Grasshoppers that Feast on Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids ยง: Chemical Education JF - CHIMIA JA - Chimia VL - 72 IS - 3 SE - Columns, Conference Reports DO - 10.2533/chimia.2018.156 UR - https://www.chimia.ch/chimia/article/view/2018_156 SP - 156 AB - The elegant grasshopper (Zonocerus elegans) and the variegated grasshopper (Z. variegatus) are among insects that deliberately consume and store pyrrolizidine alkaloids which are subsequently used in defence mechanisms. ER -