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Composition of the Blood in Onychophora

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THE primitive terrestrial arthropods of the Class Onychophora are of especial zoological interest. As comparatively little is yet known of their physiology it seems worth recording some measurements of the blood ion-levels in Peripatopsis moseleyi and also the composition of a satisfactory physiological saline based on these ion-levels (Tables 1 and 2).

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  1. Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge,

    E. A. ROBSON

  2. Department of Oceanography, University of Southampton,

    A. P. M. LOCKWOOD & R. RALPH

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ROBSON, E., LOCKWOOD, A. & RALPH, R. Composition of the Blood in Onychophora. Nature 209, 533 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/209533a0

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