CARBON DIOXIDE PRODUCTION AND DURATION OF LIFE OF DROSOPHILA CULTURES
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- 20 January 1926
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 9 (3) , 319-324
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.9.3.319
Abstract
The total CO2 produced by aseptic cultures of Drosophila at different temperatures and in the presence and absence of light was measured. The measurement was made by blowing a stream of CO2-free air through the culture flasks for 2 hours every day, absorbing and weighing the CO2 in the absorption train. The amount of CO2 produced during the entire life of the organism was not constant; it was greater at 15 than at 26 or 30[degree]C, and was much greater in the light than in the dark. The total duration of life of these insects therefore is not determined by the set of factors which determines the time required to produce a constant quantity of CO2.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: