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THE presence of detoxication mechanisms in insects is now well known, and some of these are of significance in the phenomena of resistance to, and selective action of, insecticides1. Arthropods, other than insects, are also the object of attack by insecticides for medical or economic reasons, but virtually no information is available on the fate of such foreign organic compounds in these other invertebrates.
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SMITH, J. Detoxications of Aromatic Acids with Glutamic Acid and Arginine in Spiders. Nature 195, 399–400 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195399a0
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