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ALTHOUGH the investigations of Weidenreich, Lohner, and Jordan, and the more recent studies of Arey and Ponder have led to considerable discussion concerning the actual form of the red corpuscles in the circulating blood of the Eutheria, it has long been recognized and generally accepted as an established fact that the mature erythrocytes are non-nucleated in all groups of the Mammalia.
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Rogers, ” Textbook of Comparative Physiology” (New York, 1927), p. 118.
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BRIGGS, E. The Red Blood Corpuscles of Primitive Mammals. Nature 138, 762 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138762a0
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