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Esterase Activity in the Arachnida

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DESPITE the immense amount of work which has been carried out on the physiology of the insects, there is little comparative information available for the Arachnida. The present note is a report on current studies of the comparative biochemistry of these animals.

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POLLAK, P. Esterase Activity in the Arachnida. Nature 211, 546–547 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211546b0

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