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THE relationship between blood concentration and the external medium is known in only one salt-water dipteran, the larva of Aedes detritus 1,2. During a recent study of a small salt-marsh, on the Northumberland coast, several euryhaline Diptera were investigated with regard to survival and blood regulation in sea-water media. Some of the results are briefly reported here.
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SUTCLIFFE, D. Osmotic Regulation in the Larvæ of some Euryhaline Diptera. Nature 187, 331–332 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/187331a0
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