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Lucibufagins, IV. New defensive steroids and a pterin from the firefly,Photinus pyralis (coleoptera: Lampyridae)

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Two new defensive steroids (lucibufagins6 and7) and a fluorescent pterin (8) have been isolated and characterized from the fireflyPhotinus pyralis.

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Section of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, N.Y., USA

    M. A. Goetz, J. Meinwald & T. Eisner

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Acknowledgment. We are grateful to the Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique (bourse de relève to M.G.). Partial support of this work by the NIH (grants No. AI 12020 and AI 02908), the NSF (grant No. PCM-77-25807), and the American Heart Association is acknowledged with pleasure. Paper No. 66 of the series Defense Mechanism of Arthropods.

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Goetz, M.A., Meinwald, J. & Eisner, T. Lucibufagins, IV. New defensive steroids and a pterin from the firefly,Photinus pyralis (coleoptera: Lampyridae). Experientia 37, 679–680 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01967916

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