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Two factors have been recognized as regulating moulting and metamorphosis in Rhodnius prolixus: a “moulting hormone” and a so-called “inhibitory hormone” (Wigglesworth, 1934, 1936).
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V. B. Wigglesworth (1940) studied this question.
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