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... neck region . Perhaps the mechanism controlling hunger exists there . It would have been nice to have injected food directly into the neck region . Unfortunately , the esophagus here does not possess the properties of a self - sealing ...
... neck region . Perhaps the mechanism controlling hunger exists there . It would have been nice to have injected food directly into the neck region . Unfortunately , the esophagus here does not possess the properties of a self - sealing ...
Page 51
... neck would allow until it could be fitted into the front depression . The head was held there by two pins crossed behind it . As a result of this procedure the fly's neck lay stretched across the bridge of paraffin separating the two ...
... neck would allow until it could be fitted into the front depression . The head was held there by two pins crossed behind it . As a result of this procedure the fly's neck lay stretched across the bridge of paraffin separating the two ...
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... neck ; this gland will not pro- duce its hormones in the absence of a gland embedded in the brain . And as is true of so many biological systems , there are reciprocal effects whereby the sex organs of the fly exert influence on the ...
... neck ; this gland will not pro- duce its hormones in the absence of a gland embedded in the brain . And as is true of so many biological systems , there are reciprocal effects whereby the sex organs of the fly exert influence on the ...
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