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IT is generally accepted that the adult house-fly, Musca domestica L., and certain blow-flies require only a dietary source of protein and sugar for ovarian maturation1–3. This dietary requirement for protein has not been circumvented by increasing the protein-level in the larval diet4, although recently autogeny developed when the larval diet was supplemented with a high level of cholesterol5. The concern of those investigating insect nutrition and reproduction has been mainly the general fecundity which usually involved newly emerged or young adults3,6–8, although some workers have investigated reproduction over a longer period of adult life9.
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MORRISON, P., DAVIES, D. Repeated Ovarian Cycles with Ribonucleic Acid in the Diet of Adult House-flies. Nature 201, 948–949 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201948a0
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