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Science 23 December 1960:
Vol. 132. no. 3443, pp. 1891 - 1893
DOI: 10.1126/science.132.3443.1891
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Hormology in Nutrition

T. D. Luckey 1 and P. C. Stone 1

1 Departments of Biochemistry and Entomology, University of Missouri, Columbia

Discrepancies in the growth curves for the sodium requirement of the cricket indicate that hormology may play an important role in the response to essential nutrients as well as to toxic compounds. Differentiation between stimulation of growth by a nonnutritive action and support of growth by an essential nutrient is difficult.


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