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The Carotenoids of the Locust Integument

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As part of a research programme into the biochemistry of locust pigmentation, the carotenoids of the integument of Locusta migratoria migratoroides R. and F. and Schistocerca gregaria, Forsk. have been investigated. There is apparently no reference in the literature to the pigment of Locusta, and only two rather tenuous and contradictory reports have appeared concerning that of Schistocerca1,2. Lederer1 quotes unpublished work with Volkonsky indicating that the rose pigment of young Schistocerca is not a carotenoid but that the yellow pigment of the mature insect is ; Chauvin2 reported an unidentified rose-coloured carotenoid in immature, and a mixture of α- and β -carotene in mature, insects.

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GOODWIN, T., SRISUKH, S. The Carotenoids of the Locust Integument. Nature 161, 525–526 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161525b0

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