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Journal of Experimental Biology 14,252-253 (1937)
Published by Company of Biologists 1937

A NOTE ON THE CHITINOUS NATURE OF THE PERITROPHIC MEMBRANE OF MELANOPLUS BIVITTATUS SAY

A. W. A. BROWN 1

1 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

The isolation of chitosan in pure form from Melanoplus excreta strongly suggests that the peritrophic membrane of this insect is chitinous; its amount is not over 1 per cent of the dry weight of the excreta.

Submitted on February 17, 1937






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