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The Amino Acids Required for Egg Production in Aedes aegypti1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. B. Dimond
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Entomology, Ohio State University, Columbus 10
A. O. Lea
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Entomology, Ohio State University, Columbus 10
W. F. Hahnert Jr.
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Entomology, Ohio State University, Columbus 10
D. M. DeLong
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Entomology, Ohio State University, Columbus 10

Extract

Since the monumental work of Rose (1938) on the essential amino acids for growth in the rat, similar studies have been made on other vertebrates. It has been shown that most of these animals have the same pattern of amino acid requirements for growth of the immature form and for maintenance of nitrogen equilibrium in the adult. The amino acids usually required are arginine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophane, and valine. These studies have been adequately reviewed in recent texts (Bourne and Kidder 1953, Albanese 1950).

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1956

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