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Thursday 15 September 2016

Protein Digestion of Wood-boring Insects

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H. S. HOPF

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THE nitrogen supply of wood-boring insects has never been investigated. Ripper1 assumes that it is derived directly from the wood. Mansour and Mansour-Bek2 arrive at the same conclusion, and since their summary has been published, Parkin3 has found a proteolytic enzyme in Lyctus, which supports, this view.


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References

  1. Ripper, Z. vergl. Physiol.13 (1930).
  2. Mansour and Mansour-Bek, Biol. Rev.9 (1934).
  3. Parkin, Ann. App. Biol.23 (1936).

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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v139/n3511/abs/139286b0.html#top

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