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AT 20° C, under white light illumination and circadian rhythm, nymphal diapause of Pieris brassicae is dependent on a short 9-h photophase. Some psychodysleptics (mesca-line sulphate and LSD), when injected during the photo-sentitive larval period, suppress diapause induction as if the larvae were subjected to a long 16-h photophase1. Abnormalities in the behaviour of the progeny of treated animals were observed. We studied them for three generations after the treatment.
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VUILLAUME, M., BERKALOFF, A. LSD treatment of Pieris brassicae and consequences on the progeny. Nature 251, 314–315 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/251314a0
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