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Effect of Certain Types of Paper on Sexual Maturation of the Insect Pyrrhocoris apterus

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ON reading the article entitled “Juvenile Hormone Activity for the Bug, Pyrrhocoris apterus”, by Sláma and Williams1, I was struck by a likely correlation.

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, California

    C. A. B. CLEMETSON

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CLEMETSON, C. Effect of Certain Types of Paper on Sexual Maturation of the Insect Pyrrhocoris apterus. Nature 208, 510 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/208510a0

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