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Journal of Experimental Biology 52,193-200 (1970)
Published by Company of Biologists 1970

Water Balance in the Firebrat, Thermobia Domestica (Packard) : The Site of Uptake of Water from the Atmosphere

J. NOBLE-NESBITT 1

1 School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NOR 88 C, England

1. Occlusion of the anus prevents the uptake of water from subsaturated atmospheres.

2. It is suggested that the site of uptake is the rectum.

3. The implications of this finding are discussed in relation to other reported cases of uptake.

Submitted on August 18, 1969




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