creatonotine

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creatonotine (countable and uncountable, plural creatonotines)

  1. (organic chemistry) Any of a specific family of semiochemicals (esters of retronecine) produced by arctiid moths
    • 2015 October 31, “Feeding on Host Plants with Different Concentrations and Structures of Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids Impacts the Chemical-Defense Effectiveness of a Specialist Herbivore”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      An N-oxide mixture of creatonotine B:iso-creatonotine B, in a similar concentration to those found in U.
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