Free Amino Acids in Adult Mosquitoes.
- 1 October 1951
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Experimental Biology and Medicine
- Vol. 78 (1) , 69-72
- https://doi.org/10.3181/00379727-78-18976
Abstract
The free amino acids of adult, female mosquitoes (Culex pipiens, Culex quinquejasciatus, Culex salinarius, Aedes aegypti, Aedes sollicitans, Culiseta inornata and Anopheles quadrimaculatus) were extracted with ethanol and identified by paper chromatography. Extracts of all species of mosquitoes contained 18 amino acids: Alanine, glutamic acid; beta-alanine, isoleucine, leucine, taurine, proline, histidine, serine, valine, methionine, threonine, lysine, arginine, aspartic acid, glycine, tyrosine and tryptophan.Keywords
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