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REPORTS of tumours in insects are relatively rare. Paillot1 mentions proliferation in the fat cells of Euxoa segetum Schiff., following infection by virus diseases(pseudo-grasseries I and II). Tumours have beepr described in the fruit-fly, Drosophila melanoaetster Meigen, by Stark2'3'4 and Russell5 ; in larva of the Pygsera group of butterflies, by Federley6 ; ana in the stick insect, Dixippus morosus Br., by Pflugfelder7. They have been found in a large Orthopteran insect, Leucophcea maderœ F., by Scharrer8.
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BIRD, F. Tumours Associated with a Virus Infection in an Insect. Nature 163, 777–778 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163777a0
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