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Abstract
This review primarily considers those papers which provide a full description of the steps by which the ingested food is hydrolyzed in the different regions of the insect gut. It is organized on the basis of major physiological topics and evolutionary hypotheses are used to integrate the data. A comprehensive proposal on the evolution of digestive systems in insects is provided.Mesh:
Year: 1988 PMID: 3071386
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Braz J Med Biol Res ISSN: 0100-879X Impact factor: 2.590