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LAURIE1,2 found that formate, acetate and lactate were the chief excretory products from the carbohydrate metabolism of Moniliformis dubius, and we have found lactate and succinate to be the most important excretory products of Polymorphous minutus, an acanthocephalan parasite of domestic ducks3. Succinate has been reported as an intermediary metabolite of the carbohydrate metabolism of M. dubius4,5, and so we decided to analyse for excretory products, in particular succinate, the medium in which specimens of M. dubius had been incubated.
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CROMPTON, D., WARD, P. Production of Ethanol and Succinate by Moniliformis dubius (Acanthocephala). Nature 215, 964–965 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215964b0
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