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Fatty Acid Characteristics of Some Insect Taxa

Nature volume 197, page 311 (1963)Cite this article

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As a prelude to a study of fat metabolism in the parasitic dipteron Agria affinis (Fall.) 30 species of insects and 2 of spiders were surveyed for fatty acids by gas chromatography. Because A. affinis has peculiar nutritional requirements1 it was supposed that it had a peculiar fat metabolism which would produce some equally peculiar fat composition.

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  1. House, H. L., Ann. Rev. Biochem., 31, 653 (1962).

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  1. Entomology Research Institute for Biological Control, Belleville, Ontario

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BARLOW, J. Fatty Acid Characteristics of Some Insect Taxa. Nature 197, 311 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197311a0

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