The ability to accumulate toxins from the diet has gradually evolved in poison dart frogs (IMAGE)

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The ability to accumulate toxins from the diet has gradually evolved in poison dart frogs

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Dendrobates tinctorius, one of the poison dart frogs analyzed in the study. This species not only sequesters alkaloids from the insects it ingests, but also modifies them beforehand so that they are not degraded within the body 

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Taran Grant/IB-USP

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