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SICKLE-FIBRES have recently been the subject of communications to NATURE by Prof. J. E. Duerden1 and Dr. S. G. Barker2. In a minute study of a fibre selected by Prof. Duerden as a typical sickle-fibre from a Blackface lamb, Dr. Barker found that along the sub-apical portion, between the sickle-shaped tip and the definitive fibre grown after birth, the area of cross-section was very little smaller, if at all, than that of the sickle region.
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NATURE, 130, 736, Nov. 12, 1932.
NATURE, 131, 799, June 3, 1933.
J. Text. Inst., 24, T.161; 1933.
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DRY, F. Sickle-Fibres of the New Zealand Romney Lamb. Nature 132, 569 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132569b0
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