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Abnormal Reproduction in Woodlice

Nature volume 160, page 509 (1947)Cite this article

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Under this heading I recorded in 19431 an instance where, without incubating in the brood pouch, a female specimen of Armadillidium nasatum, Budde-Lund produced a bunch of forty to forty-five eggs which duly hatched and produced normal young. Later, another female of the same species produced twenty eggs in a like manner, all of which duly hatched.

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  • N. West Nat., 147, 148 (1943).

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    WALTER E. COLLINGE

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COLLINGE, W. Abnormal Reproduction in Woodlice. Nature 160, 509 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160509b0

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