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IT has been assumed until quite recently that the ‘gills’, or anal papillae, of mosquito larvae serve for respiration, and I accepted this view in a previous publication1, though with some misgivings in view of Dr. Wigglesworth's demonstration2, that the respiratory function is at most secondary.
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Hopkins, "Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Begion", Part 1 (1936), p. 12.
Wigglesworth, "The Function of the Anal Gills of the Mosquito Larva", J. Exp. Biol., 10, 16–26 (1933).
Wigglesworth, "The Regulation of Osmotic Pressure and Chloride Concentration in the Hæmolymph of Mosquito Larvæ", J. Exp. Biol., 15, 235–247 (1938).
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HOPKINS, G. Function of the ‘Gills’ in Mosquito Larvæ. Nature 142, 482 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142482b0
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