[Reproduction and mutability of the flour beetle in weightlessness (experiments on the Saliut-6 orbital station)].

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[Reproduction and mutability of the flour beetle in weightlessness (experiments on the Saliut-6 orbital station)].

Kosmicheskaia biologiia i aviakosmicheskaia meditsina - 1 Jan 2000

Parfenov G P

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Experiments with the flour beetle Tribolium castaneus showed that in weightlessness these insects completed their cycle of development--from fertilization to the emergence of mature imago of the next generation--in the normal way. Survival of specimens, densities of cultures, duration of developm...

Topics

Animals
Coleoptera
Mutation
Reproduction
Space Flight
USSR
Weightlessness

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