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HERBERT C. DESSAUER and F. HARVEY POUCH: Geographic variation of blood proteins and the systematics of kingsnakes (Lampropeltis getulus)

R. F. LEE, C. F. PHLEGER and M. H. HORN: Composition of oil in fish bones: possible function in neutral buoyancy

P. W. HOCHACHKA, T. G. OWEN, J. F. ALLEN and G. C. WHITTOW: Multiple end products of anaerobiosis in diving vertebrates

R. S. MUMMERY, M. ROTHSCHILD and L. R. G. VALADON: Carotenoids in two silk moths Saturnia pavonia L. and Actia luna L.

CATHERINE MICHEL and BORIVOJ KEIL: Biologically active proteins in the venomous glands of the polychaetous annelid, Glycera convoluta Keferstein

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B. W. GEER, K. R. KELLEY, T. H. POHLMAN and S. J. YEMM: A comparison of rat and Drosophila spermatozoan metabolisms

CECIL ENTENMAN, PAUL D. ACKERMAN, JOHN WALSH and X. J. MUSACCHIA: Effect of incubation temperature on hepatic palmitate metabolism in rats, hamsters and ground squirrels

ANNA STRUNECKA and J~ZEF ZBOROWSKI: Microsomal synthesis of phosphatidylinositol and its exchange between subcellular structures of rat liver

EARL DD(ON, JR: Kinetic studies on the erythrocyte hexokinase of the domestic pig, Sus scrofa

RICHARD D. JURD, SHEILA M. LUTHER-DAVIES and GEORGE T. STEVENSON: Humoral antibodies to soluble antigens in larvae of Xenopus laevis

J. FISCHL, J. ISHAY and N. TALMOR: Monosaccharidase activity and pyruvate, lactate and carbon dioxide content of the Vespa orientalis hemolymph

R. C. VRIJENHOEK: Effects of parasitism on the esterase isozyme patterns of fish eyes

J. R. CLEARWATER: Pheromone metabolism in male Pseudaletia separata (Walk) and Mamestra confisurata (Walk.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

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ROBERT SIBOULET, FRANCE LOIRAT et CLAUDE GRENOT: Variation du phenotype proteique chez des hybrides interspecifiques du genre Bufo

E. M. MCDERMID and W. N. BONNER: Red cell and serum protein systems of grey seals and habour seals

HANS KLING and SIEGWALD PENTZ: Isolation and chemical characterization of disc-electrophoretically pure haemolymph proteins of Plodia interpunctella (Indian meal moth)

STEPHEN D. YOUNG: Collagen in the autoclave-soluble proteins of scleractinian corals (Cnidaria)

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UNNI E. H. FYHN and BOLLING SULLIVAN: Elasmobranch hemoglobins: dimerization and polymerization in various species

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