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BEHAVIOURAL studies have indicated that some invertebrates can detect amino-acids, but physiological information is limited to amino-acid receptors in some Crustacea1 and in two Ixodid ticks2. I report here a receptor in an insect which is sensitive to all twelve amino-acids tested.
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SCHOONHOVEN, L. Amino-acid Receptor in Larvae of Pieris brassicae (Lepidoptera). Nature 221, 1268 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2211268a0
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