Abstract
THE study of the basal metabolism of mosquitoes is rendered difficult because outbursts of locomotory activity may increase the respiration many-fold. Flight increases the oxygen uptake of insects 50–100 times as compared to resting rates1 and causes variations in respiration between different groups of mosquitoes of the same strain.
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GALUN, R. Respiration of Decapitated Mosquitoes. Nature 185, 391–392 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185391a0
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