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SOME heavy metal ions, particularly zinc, have been shown to imitate the cytological effects of the insect molting hormone, ‘ecdyson’, in explanted dipteran salivary glands1. The use of such substances as hormone imitators would greatly facilitate research by providing readily available substitutes for the actual hormone. It is therefore worth while investigating this possibility further. This report describes the action of zinc on mitosis in cells of wing anlagen of meal moth larvae, Ephestia kühniella Z.
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BARLOW, C. Effect of Zinc Ions on Mitosis in Wing Anlagen of Ephestia kühniella Z. in vitro. Nature 209, 1045–1046 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2091045a0
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