Literature DB >> 16592501

Lucibufagins: Defensive steroids from the fireflies Photinus ignitus and P. marginellus (Coleoptera: Lampyridae).

T Eisner1, D F Wiemer, L W Haynes, J Meinwald.   

Abstract

Feeding tests with thrushes (Hylocichla spp.) led to the isolation of three novel steroid pyrones from fireflies (Photinus ignitus and P. marginellus) responsible, in part at least, for the unpalatability of these insects to the birds. The term lucibufagin is coined for these steroidal pyrones. The closest known relatives of lucibufagins are the familiar cardiotonic bufadienolides, found in certain toads and plants.

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Year:  1978        PMID： 16592501      PMCID： PMC411366          DOI： 10.1073/pnas.75.2.905

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A        ISSN： 0027-8424            Impact factor:   11.205


  13 in total

1.  Cardenolides (heart poisons) in a grasshopper feeding on milkweeds.

Authors:  J von Euw; L Fishelson; J A Parsons; T Reichstein; M Rothschild
Journal:  Nature       Date:  1967-04-01       Impact factor: 49.962

2.  Cardiac glycosides in the defensive secretion of chrysomelid beetles: evidence for their production by the insects.

Authors:  J M Pasteels; D Daloze
Journal:  Science       Date:  1977-07-01       Impact factor: 47.728

3.  [On arthropod defense substances. XLIV. Steroids of the mudswimmer Ilybius fenestratus, 3].

Authors:  H Schildknecht; H Birringer
Journal:  Z Naturforsch B       Date:  1969-12       Impact factor: 1.047

4.  Cantharidin: potent feeding deterrent to insects.

Authors:  J E Carrel; T Eisner
Journal:  Science       Date:  1974-02-22       Impact factor: 47.728

Review 5.  Heart poisons in the monarch butterfly. Some aposematic butterflies obtain protection from cardenolides present in their food plants.

Authors:  T Reichstein; J von Euw; J A Parsons; M Rothschild
Journal:  Science       Date:  1968-08-30       Impact factor: 47.728

6.  Biosynthesis of the bufadienolide marinobufagin in toads Bufo paracnemis from cholesterol-20-14C.

Authors:  A M Porto; E G Gros
Journal:  Experientia       Date:  1971-05-15

7.  [Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of bufadienolides (steroidal toad poisons)].

Authors:  L Gsell; C Tamm
Journal:  Helv Chim Acta       Date:  1969       Impact factor: 2.164

8.  Plant poisons in a terrestrial food chain.

Authors:  L P Brower; J van Brower; J M Corvino
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  1967-04       Impact factor: 11.205

9.  Cardiac glycosides in the oleander aphid, Aphis nerii.

Authors:  M Rothschild; J von Euw; T Reichstein
Journal:  J Insect Physiol       Date:  1970-06       Impact factor: 2.354

10.  Dihydromatricaria acid: acetylenic acid secreted by soldier beetle.

Authors:  J Meinwald; Y C Meinwald; A M Chalmers; T Eisner
Journal:  Science       Date:  1968-05-24       Impact factor: 47.728
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  17 in total

1.  Firefly "femmes fatales" acquire defensive steroids (lucibufagins) from their firefly prey.

Authors:  T Eisner; M A Goetz; D E Hill; S R Smedley; J Meinwald
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  1997-09-02       Impact factor: 11.205

2.  Determinants of reproductive success across sequential episodes of sexual selection in a firefly.

Authors:  A South; S M Lewis
Journal:  Proc Biol Sci       Date:  2012-04-25       Impact factor: 5.349

3.  Mushroom chemical defense : Pungent sesquiterpenoid dialdehyde antifeedant to opossum.

Authors:  S M Camazine; J F Resch; T Eisner; J Meinwald
Journal:  J Chem Ecol       Date:  1983-10       Impact factor: 2.626

4.  Defensive steroids from a carrion beetle (Silpha americana).

Authors:  J Meinwald; B Roach; K Hicks; D Alsop; T Eisner
Journal:  Experientia       Date:  1985-04-15

Review 5.  Witches, potions, and metabolites: an overview from a medicinal perspective.

Authors:  Luana Canzian Llanes; Nathalia Biazotto Sa; Arthur Ribeiro Cenci; Kerolain Faoro Teixeira; Igor Vinícius de França; Lidiane Meier; Aldo Sena de Oliveira
Journal:  RSC Med Chem       Date:  2022-03-30

6.  Defensive Chemistry of Lycid Beetles and of Mimetic Cerambycid Beetles that Feed on Them.

Authors:  Thomas Eisner; Frank C Schroeder; Noel Snyder; Jacqualine B Grant; Daniel J Aneshansley; David Utterback; Jerrold Meinwald; Maria Eisner
Journal:  Chemoecology       Date:  2008       Impact factor: 1.725

7.  Lampyridae (Coleoptera): A plethora of mollicute associations.

Authors:  K J Hackett; R F Whitcomb; J G Tully; J E Lloyd; J J Anderson; T B Clark; R B Henegar; D L Roset; E A Clark; J L Vaughn
Journal:  Microb Ecol       Date:  1992-06       Impact factor: 4.552

Review 8.  The chemistry of phyletic dominance.

Authors:  J Meinwald; T Eisner
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  1995-01-03       Impact factor: 11.205

Review 9.  The chemistry of poisons in amphibian skin.

Authors:  J W Daly
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  1995-01-03       Impact factor: 11.205

10.  Pygidial secretions ofPasimachus subsulcatus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) deter predation byEumeces inexpectatus (Squamata: Scincidae).

Authors:  B W Witz; H R Mushinsky
Journal:  J Chem Ecol       Date:  1989-03       Impact factor: 2.626
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