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DURING the course of the nutritional studies1 on the rice moth, Corcyra cephalonica Staint., to determine the comparative value of several commercially available antibiotic feed supplements, it was observed that in some cases male moths of Corcyra cephalonica Staint. exhibited a higher growth response than the females receiving dietary antibiotics in their larval stages. A survey of the literature failed to disclose specific observations on this phenomenon among insects, although Palafox and Rosenberg2 observed that male chicks respond in a more satisfactory manner to antibiotic feed supplements than the female.
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Bhanu, Daya, Curr. Sci., 30, 420 (1961).
Palafox, A. L., and Rosenberg, M. M., Poult. Sci., 31, 6, 1110 (1952).
Bhanu, Daya, Experientia, 17, 468 (1961).
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BHANU, D. Differential Growth Response of the Male and Female Rice Moth to Antibiotic Supplements. Nature 197, 1227 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1971227a0
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