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In steroid: Steroids of insects, fungi, and other organisms
…aurotaenia, produces a deadly alkaloid, batrachotoxin (14), which is used by tribal peoples as an arrow poison. The skin of salamanders secretes a comparably poisonous alkaloid—samandarin (15).
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