Background The potential for alternative plant protein sources to replace limited marine
ingredients in fish feeds is important for the future of the fish farming industry. However, plant …

Herbivores rarely consume toxic plants. An increase in the proportion of toxic plant
secondary metabolites (PSMs) in poisonous plants can promote detoxification and related …

Genomic technologies have advanced rapidly in recent decades and have ushered in an
exciting new era for the study of mammals. Mammalogists working with non-model species …

Abstract Background Nearly 40 years ago, Freeland and Janzen predicted that liver
biotransformation enzymes dictated diet selection by herbivores. Despite decades of …

What you eat, when you eat, and where you eat have dramatic effects on many aspects of an
individual life. Nutrition is a source of a number of substances that can increase the …

Herbivores regularly ingest natural toxins produced by plants as a defence against
herbivory. Recent work suggests that compound toxicity is exacerbated at higher ambient …

Herbivores face a continual challenge of balancing their nutritional needs with the toxicity
that they encounter in their diets. Plants produce toxic phytochemicals to ward off herbivores …

Plants developed different mechanisms to reduce insect attack, including specific responses
that activate different metabolic pathways which considerably alter their chemical and …