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Nitrogen excretion in insects

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Proceedings: Animal Sciences

Abstract

As a result of excessive consumption of nitrogen more than necessary for their normal life processes, insects eliminate the excess quantities in one form or the other lest the ensuing toxicity should prove fatal to them. Voiding of several other nitrogenous compounds by insects besides uric acid via one common opening—the rectum, has posed difficulties in determining their nature as true excretory products or fecal nitrogenous waste matter. In the present review article an attempt has been made to present an almost up to date knowledge on the topic based on an intense search of literature which also includes the findings from the author’s laboratory.

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Pant, R. Nitrogen excretion in insects. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Anim. Sci.) 97, 379–415 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03179946

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