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Recent work which I have been conducting at this laboratory on the possible effect ultra-violet rays may have on the activation of ovarian function in female mosquitoes, has disclosed the fact that mosquito larvæ are highly susceptible to a remarkable form of injury by radiations from the unshielded mercury-arc generated by the ordinary Cooper-Hewitt vacuum type of quartz lamp.
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MACGREGOR, M. Ultra-Violet Rays and Mosquito Larvæ. Nature 128, 68 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128068a0
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