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Insects and Physiological Research1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

R. J. Heron
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In the foreword to the initial issue of the “Journal of Insect Physiology”, v. B. Wigglesworth states: “–the key to many of the fundamental problems of physiology may perhaps be found most readily among the insects” (15). This expresses a viewpoint that he and others have enunciated on previous occasions (10, 14). It is well substantiated by a consideration of the general and particular characteristics of insects and the contributions that have been made to general physiology through their study.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 90 , Issue 8 , August 1958 , pp. 501 - 504
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1958

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