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Science 12 January 1968:
Vol. 159. no. 3811, pp. 218 - 219
DOI: 10.1126/science.159.3811.218
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Cabbage Aphid: Effect of Isolation on Form and on Endocrine Activity

Dinah F. White 1

1 University of Sydney, Sydney, N.S.W. 2006, Australia

Isolated wingless cabbage aphids, Brevicoryne brassicae (L.), produced only wingless young. Aphids isolated from birth all became wingless, whereas over 50 percent of grouped controls developed wings. Isolation caused hyperactivity of the corpus allatum; this hyperactivity may have caused the wingless form.

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