Herbivory is common in mammals,yet our understanding of detoxification processes used by mammals to biotrans-form plant secondary compounds(PSCs)is limited.Specialist herbivores are thought to have evolved detoxifica-...
Acknowledgments We thank Kevin Burls, Alan de Queiroz, Chris Feldman, Angela Hornsby, Peter Murphy, Derek Roff, and an anonymous reviewer for insightful criticisms and comments on earlier versions of this manuscript.Funding was provided in part by a National Science Foundation grant to MDM (DEB-0952946) and by an ND EPSCoR grant to NAD.
Groups of organisms-whether multiple species or populations of a single species-can differ in several non-exclusive ways. For example, groups may have diverged phenotypically, genetically, or in the evolutionary respo...