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IT is well known that the cuticle in insects is shed at the end of each instar and a new one is formed by the underlying epithelium. Although much is known about the histological changes in the epithelium and the chemical changes in the cuticle during this complicated process of moulting1,2, nothing is known about the role of the ribonucleic acids (RNA) during this period. Since it is known that RNA plays an important part in cellular protein synthesis3, it was considered desirable to study the RNA of the insects during the moult cycle.
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KRISHNAKUMARAN, A. Ribonucleic Acids in the Moult Cycle of an Insect. Nature 189, 243–245 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189243b0
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