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DURING extensive laboratory breeding of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål), at the Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Porton, twelve albino hoppers (nymphs), creamy-white in colour, occurred among the normal heavily pigmented ones. Six were males and six females, and from them an albino strain has been established in the laboratory of the Anti-Locust Research Centre.
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HUNTER-JONES, P. An Albino Strain of the Desert Locust. Nature 180, 236–237 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180236b0
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