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INSECTS are known to convert foreign phenols to glucosides1, and a few normally occurring glucosides have been identified in insects2–4. In other organisms the sugar for analogous glycoside synthesis comes from uridine diphosphate sugar derivatives and a similar process appears to function in insects the uridine diphosphate glucose (UDPG) of which provides the glucose for trehalose5 and arbutin6 formation. We have now investigated the distribution and extent of this mechanism and the specificity of its need for UDPG in the locust, Schistocerca gregaria.
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SMITH, J., TURBERT, H. Enzymic Glucoside Synthesis in Locusts. Nature 189, 600 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189600a0
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