Protein Digestion of Wood-boring Insects

Author

H. S. HOPF

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Abstract

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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