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A NUMBER of investigators1 have distinguished two main types of larval insect tissue with respect to growth and metamorphosis. Many tissues grow by increase in cell size and undergo disintegration at metamorphosis, the corresponding adult tissue being formed from imaginal disks that were not functional parts of the larval tissue. The second class of tissues grows by cell division and multiplication, and is carried over, with or without modification, into the adult.
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Berger, C. A., Anat. Rec., 67, Supp., 1, 63 (1936); Berger, C. A., Genetics, 23, 140 (1938); Berger, C. A., Carnegie Inst. of Wash., Contrib. to Embryol., 27 (in the Press).
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BERGER, C. Cytology of Metamorphosis in the Culicinæ. Nature 141, 834–835 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141834c0
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