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IN insects, succinoxidase activity has been studied in the milkweed bug1, in the embryonic cells of the grasshopper Melanoplus differentialis 2, in the thoracic muscles of the American cockroach Periplaneta americana 3, and in the thoracic muscles of the wood-roach Leucophaea maderae 4. Harvey and Beck3 reported a sex difference in the thoracic muscles of the American cockroach, the males showing three times as much activity as the females. This difference was confirmed by McShan et al. 4, who also showed that in the woodroach the male and female thoracic muscles have approximately equivalent succinoxidase activity (see Table 1).
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KRAMER, S. Succinoxidase Activity of the Flight Muscles of the Wasp, Sceliphron cementarium . Nature 174, 43 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174043a0
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