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Science 15 April 1960:
Vol. 131. no. 3407, pp. 1103 - 1104
DOI: 10.1126/science.131.3407.1103
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Species Differentiation of Insects by Hemolymph Electrophoresis

Marc Van Sande 1 and Denise Karcher 1

1 Laboratory of Biochemistry, Institute for Tropical Medicine, and Laboratory of Neurochemistry, Institute Bunge, Antwerp, Belgium

By means of microclectrophoresis in agar gel, we studied the hemolymph proteins of different species of the family Triatomidae (class Insecta) and different species of the families Ixodidae and Argasidae (clalss Arachnoidea). The results show a specific electrophoretic pattern for each species. Insects infected with pathogenic organisms have the same pattern as normal insects.

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