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Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

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 * Carminic acid
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 * Given that this is the main substance harvested from cochineal insects, to produce the pigment carmine a red dye that is used in a plethora of colouring of products, the page seems to be lacking in content. There is only two paragraphs on the page, with one briefly covering about how it used in the production of the pigment and the other talking a bit about it's molecular structure. In many pages involving this substance, they refer to it as an antipredator mechanism yet none, I've seen have covered what about it deters predators. I believe that this antipredator response is one aspect that should be covered given that before human cultivating the insects fort the acid, this was it's primary use. Additionally, adding a section on how it is harvested and linking it to the cochineal page with pictures should further fill up the page with important content.


 * Sources
 * Eisner, T., S. Nowicki, M. Goetez, and J. Meinwald. (1980). Red Cochineal Dye (Carminic Acid): It Role in Nature. Science (208): 1039-1042
 * Eisner, T., R. Ziegler, J.L. McCormick, M. Eisner, E.R. Hoebeke and J. Meinwald. (1994). Defensive use of an acquired substance (carminic acid) by predaceous insect larvae. Experimentia (50): 610-615.
 * Campana M.G., N.M. Robles Garcia, and N. Tuross. (2015). America's red gold: multiple lineages of cultivated cochineal in Mexico. Ecology and Evolution 5(3): 607-617.
 * Dettner, K. (2015). Toxins, Defensive Compounds and Drugs from Insects. Insect Molecular Biology and Ecology: 39-93.

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