Individual and Geographic Variation of Skin Alkaloids in Three Swamp-Forest Species of Madagascan Poison Frogs (Mantella)

@article{Andriamaharavo2015IndividualAG,
  title={Individual and Geographic Variation of Skin Alkaloids in Three Swamp-Forest Species of Madagascan Poison Frogs (Mantella)},
  author={Nirina R. Andriamaharavo and H Martin Garraffo and Thomas F. Spande and Lesley-Ann Giddings and David R. Vieites and Miguel Vences and Ralph A. Saporito},
  journal={Journal of Chemical Ecology},
  year={2015},
  volume={41},
  pages={837 - 847}
}
Seventy skins of three mantellid frog species from Madagascan swamp-forest habitats, Mantella aurantiaca, M. crocea, and M. milotympanum, were individually examined for skin alkaloids using GC/MS. These poison frogs were found to differ significantly in their alkaloid composition from species of Mantella originating from non-flooded rainforest in eastern Madagascar, which were examined in earlier work. Only 16 of the previously detected 106 alkaloids were represented among the 60 alkaloids from… 
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