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    Amphibian myiasis. Blowfly larvae (Lucilia bufonivora, Diptera: Calliphoridae) co** with the poisonous skin secretion of the common toad (Bufo bufo)

    The blowfly Lucilia bufonivora shows high host specificity for toads despite the host’s toxic skin secretion, which consists mainly of bufadienolides. These toxins are effective blockers of the Na+, K+-ATPase, an...

    Dietrich Mebs, Georg Petschenka, Werner Pogoda, Stefan W. Toennes in Chemoecology (2014)