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Science 10 April 1959:
Vol. 129. no. 3354, pp. 966 - 967
DOI: 10.1126/science.129.3354.966
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Nemin: a Morphogenic Substance Causing Trap Formation by Predaceous Fungi

DAVID PRAMER 1 and NORMAN R. STOLL 2

1 Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
2 Rockefeller Institute, New York

Broths in which the nematode Neoaplectana glaseri had develop axenically caused the mycelium of the predaceous fungus Arthrobotrys conoides to differentiate into traps. The active principle was extracted from worm-free Culture filtrates and named "nemin." The identity of nemin remains to be established.


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