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CERTAIN historical events in 1940 interested us in the possible dietetic value of the protein content of earthworms. We found that two Germans1 and two repetitive Japanese2 had shown that all the usual amino-acids produced by hydrolysis of mammalian protein were also obtained from earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris), but they gave no quantitative figures of total protein with which we were concerned and which we now report.
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LAWRENCE, R., MILLAR, H. Protein Content of Earthworms. Nature 155, 517 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155517b0
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