Talk:Chemical defense

Potential References
I plan to use these three references and others to support the addition of a section on lichen chemical defenses, tempting as it is to include that in the Plant section. Lawrey, J. D. (1989). Lichen Secondary Compounds: Evidence for a Correspondence between Antiherbivore and Antimicrobial Function. The Bryologist, 92(3), 326–328. https://doi.org/10.2307/3243401 Perry, N., Benn, M., Brennan, N., Burgess, E., Ellis, G., Galloway, D.,. . . Tangney, R. (1999). Antimicrobial, Antiviral and Cytotoxic Activity of New Zealand Lichens. The Lichenologist, 31(6), 627-636. doi:10.1006/lich.1999.0241 Emmerich, R., Giez, I., Lange, O. L., & Proksch, P. (1993). Toxicity and antifeedant activity of lichen compounds against the polyphagous herbivorous insect Spodoptera littoralis. Phytochemistry, 33(6), 1389-1394. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natoleon (talk • contribs) 01:35, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

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This article stub is off to a good start, but might need more sources for information already present and there is certainly a wealth of information available on the topic that would improve this article. Chemical defense needs to be redefined as a clear, one-sentence statement followed by the main types of chemical defense. Each type can be a subsection and information already present on animal and plant defenses can be improved by providing more examples and greater detail. A section for evolution of chemical defenses, exploring classical examples such as a blister beetles and co-adaptation of plant defenses and herbivore resistance, would be interesting to professional and lay readers. Additionally, a brief review of studies that have explored the mechanisms of concentration of plant toxins by insects into their own defenses (e.g., monarch butterflies and other lepidopterans) would be relevant and would improve the article if added. The section about Slow Growing vs Fast Growing Plants needs to be removed and replaced with a section about adaptive trade-offs. I am in the process of reviewing the literature and will be making the suggested edits in coming weeks. Jsdawson90 (talk)

A few references that will be used (more to come):
 * Trigo, José R.. (2000). The chemistry of antipredator defense by secondary compounds in neotropical lepidoptera: facts, perspectives and caveats. Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, 11(6), 551-561. https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-50532000000600002
 * Dettner, K. (1987). Chemosystematics and evolution of beetle chemical defenses. Annual review of entomology, 32(1), 17-48.
 * Berenbaum, M. R. (1995). The chemistry of defense: theory and practice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 92(1), 2-8.
 * Karban, R., & Baldwin, I. T. (1997). Induced Responses to Herbivory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
 * Kersch-Becker, M. F., Kessler, A., & Thaler, J. S. (2017, September). Plant defences limit herbivore population growth by changing predator–prey interactions. In Proc. R. Soc. B (Vol. 284, No. 1862, p. 20171120). The Royal Society.

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Nov 30, 2017
I have replaced all old text with new text from my research notes. I apologize if anybody else was editing this article, but this was for a class assignment. Please do not make any changes until after Dec 1, 2017. Thank you - Jsdawson90 (talk)

Dec 15, 2020
I dedicated a section to amphibians, but have so far only covered frogs. I also removed a sentence from the general paragraph about vertebrates to avoid unnecessary repetition. Ark2511 (talk) 15:55, 15 December 2020 (UTC)Ark2511

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