A sample of a few fascinating frog (chemistry) papers...

Amato, I. (1992). "From 'Hunter magic,' a Pharmacopeia?" Science 258: 1306.

Badio, B. and J. W. Daly (1994). "Epibatidine,a potent analgetic and nicotinic agonist." Molecular Pharmacology 45: 563-569.

Badio, B., H. M. Garraffo, T. F. Spande and J. W. Daly (1994). "Epibatidine: discovery and definition as a potent analgesic and nicotinic agonist." Medicinal Chemistry Research 4: 440-448.

Caldwell, J. P. (1996). "The evolution of myrmecophagy and its correlates in poison frogs (Family Dendrobatidae)." Journal of Zoology 240: 75-101.

Cochrane, C. S. (1825). Jouranl of a residence and travel in Colombia in the years 1823 and 1824. London, Henry Colburn.

Daly, J. W., N. R. Andriamaharavo, M. Andriantsiferana and C. W. Myers (1996). "Madagascan poison frogs (Mantella) and their skin alkaloids." American Museum Novitates 3177(1-34).

Daly, J. W., G. B. Brown and M. Mensah-Dwumah (1978). "Classification of skin alkaloids from neotropical poison-dart frogs (Dendrobatidae)." Toxicon 16: 163-188.

Daly, J. W., J. Caceres, R. W. Moni, F. Gusovsky, m. Moos, K. B. Seamon, K. Milton and C. W. Myers (1992). "Frog secretions and hunting magic in the upper Amazon: identification of a peptide that interacts with an adenosine receptor." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 89: 10960-10963.

Daly, J. W., H. M. Garraffo, G. S. Hall and C. J. F (1997). "Absence of skin alkaloids in captive-raised madagascan mantelline frogs (Mantella) and sequestration of dietary alkaloids." Toxicon 35: 1131-1135.

Daly, J. W., H. M. Garraffo, P. Jain, T. F. Spande, R. R. Snelling, C. Jaramillo and A. S. Rand (2000). "Arthropod-frog connection: decahyrdroquinoline and pyrrolizidine alkaloids common to microsympatric myrmicine ants and dendrobatid frogs." Journal of Chemical Ecology 26(1): 73-85.

Daly, J. W., H. M. Garraffo, L. K. Pannell and T. F. Spande (1990). "Alkaloids from Australian frogs (Myobatrachidae): Pseudophyrnamines and pumiliotoxins." Journal of Natural Products 53(2): 401-421.

Daly, J. W., H. M. Garraffo and T. F. Spande (1999). Alkaloids from Amphibian Skins. Alkaloids: Chemical and Biological Perspectives. S. W. Pelletier. New York, Pergamon. 13: 1-161.

Daly, J. W., H. M. Garraffo, T. F. Spande, V. C. Clark, J. Ma, H. Ziffer and J. F. Cover Jr. (2003). "Evidence for an enantioselective pumiliotoxin 7-hydroxylase in dendrobatid poison frogs of the genus Dendrobates." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 100: 11092-11097.

Daly, J. W., T. Kaneko, J. Wilham, H. M. Garraffo, T. F. Spande, A. Espinosa and M. A. Donnelly (2002). "Bioactive alkaloids of frog skin: Combinatorial bioprospecting reveals that pumiliotoxins have an arthropod source." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 99(22): 13996-14001.

Daly, J. W., C. W. Myers, J. E. Warnick and E. X. Albuquerque (1980). "Levels of Batrachotoxin and lack of sensitivity to its action in poison-dart frogs (Phyllobates)." Science 208: 1383-1385.

Daly, J. W., C. W. Myers and N. Whittaker (1987). "Further classificaiton of skin alkaloids from Neotropical poison frogs (Dendrobatidae), with a general survey of the toxic/noxious substances in the Amphibia." Toxicon 25(10): 1023-1095.

Daly, J. W., S. I. Secunda, H. M. Garraffo, T. F. Spande, A. Wisneiski and J. F. Cover (1994). "An uptake system for dietary alkaloids in poison frogs (Dendrobatidae)." Toxicon 32(6): 657-663.

Daly, J. W., S. I. Secunda, H. M. Garraffo, T. F. Spande, A. Wisneiski, C. Nishihira and J. F. Cover (1992). "Variability in alkaloid profiles in neotropical poison frogs (Dendrobatidae): genetic versus environmental determinants." Toxicon 30(8): 887-898.

Daly, J. W., B. Witkop, P. Bommer and K. Biemann (1965). "Batrachotoxin. The active principle of the Colobian Arrow poison frog, Phyllobates bicolor (err. P. aurotaenia)." Journal of the American Chemical Society 87(1): 124-126.

Donnelly, M. A. (1991). "Feeding patterns of the strawberry poison frog, Dendrobates pumilio (Anura: Dendrobatidae)." Copeia 3: 723-730.

Dumbacher, J. P., B. M. Beehler, T. F. Spande, H. M. Garraffo and J. W. Daly (1992). "Homobatrachotoxin in the genus Pitohui: chemical defense in birds?" Science 258: 799-801.

Dumbacher, J. P., T. F. Spande and J. W. Daly (2000). "Batrachotoxin alkaloids from passerine birds: a second toxic bird genus (Ifrita kowaldi) from New Guinea." Proceedings of the National Academies of Science USA 97(24): 12933-13460.

Erspamer, V., G. F. Erspamer, C. Severini, R. L. Potenza, D. Barra, G. Mignogna and A. Bianchi (1993). "Pharmacological studies of 'Sapo' form the frog Phyllomedusa bicolor skin: a drug used by the Peruvian Matses Indians in shamanic hunting rituals." Toxicon 31(9): 1099-1111.

Erspamer, V., P. Melchiorri, G. F. Erspamer, P. C. Montecucchi and R. DeCatiglione (1985). "Phyllomedusa skin: a huge factory and store-house of a variety of active peptides." Peptides 6(3): 7-12.

Garraffo, H. M., T. F. Spande, J. W. Daly, A. Baldessari and E. G. Gros (1993). "Alkaloids from Bufonid toads (Melanophryniscus): Decahydroquinolines, pumiliotoxins, and homopumiliotoxins, indolizidines, pyrrolizidines, and quinolizidines." Journal of Natural Products 56(3): 357-373.

Gorman, P. (1990). "People of the jaguar: shamanic hunting practices of the Matses." Shaman's Drum Fall 1990: 40-49.

Jones, T. H., J. S. Gorman, R. R. Snelling, J. H. Delabie, M. S. Blum, H. M. Garraffo, P. Jain, J. W. Daly and T. F. Spande (1999). "Further alkaloids common to ants and frogs: decahydroquinolines and a quinolizidine." Journal of Chemical Ecology 25(5): 1179-1193.

Myers, C. W. and J. W. Daly (1983). "Dart-Poison Frogs." Scientific American 248(2): 120-133.

Myers, C. W. and J. W. Daly (1993). "Tropical poison frogs." Science 262: 1193.

Myers, C. W., J. W. Daly and B. Malkin (1978). "A dangerously toxic new frog (Phyllobates) used by Emberá Indians of Western Colombia, with a discussion of blowgun fabrication and dart poisoning." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 161(Article 2): 309-365.

Smith, B. P., M. J. Tyler, T. Kaneko, H. M. Garraffo, T. F. Spande and J. W. Daly (2002). "Evidence for biosynthesis of pseudophrynamine alklaloids by an Australian Myobatrachid frog (Pseudophryne) and for the sequestration of dietary pumiliotoxins." Journal of Natural Products 65: 439-447.

Spande, T. F., H. M. Garraffo, M. W. Edwards, H. J. Yeh, L. K. Pannell and J. W. Daly (1992). "Epibatidine: a novel (Chloropyridyl)azabicycloheptane with potent analgesic activity from an Ecuadoran poison frog." Journal of the American Chemical Society 114(9): 3475-3478.

Toft, C. A. (1985). "Resource partitioning in Amphibians and Reptiles." Copeia 1985(1): 1-21.

Tokuyama, T. and J. W. Daly (1983). "Steroidal alkaloids (batrachotoxins and 4B-hydroxybatrachotoxins), "indole alkaloids" (Calycanthine and Chimonanthine) and a piperidinyldipyridine alkaloid (noranabasamine) in skin extracts from the Colombian poison-dart frog Phyllobates terribilis (Dendrobatidae)." Tetrahedron 39(1): 41-47.

Vences, M., F. Glaw and W. Bohme (1997/98). "Evolutionary correlates of microphagy in alkaloid-containing frogs (Amphibia: Anura)." Zoologischer Anzeiger 236: 217-230.

Wassén, S. H. (1934). "The frog in Indian mythology and imaginative world." Anthrops 29: 613-658.