THE ACTION OF FUMIGANTS ON INSECTS: III. THE FATE OF HYDROGEN CYANIDE IN SITOPHILUS GRANARIUS (L.)

Author:

Bond E. J.

Abstract

A study of the fate of hydrogen cyanide in fumigated S. granarius adults, using carbon-14 labelled cyanide, showed that this poison became generally distributed and combined with various metabolites. Labelled carbon was found in three compounds of a trichloroacetic acid extract and in one compound of the hydrolyzed proteins and in the body fats. Only a very small amount of the carbon was excreted from the insect's body as carbon dioxide, but a considerable amount was found in the excrement; nine radioactive compounds were isolated from the water-soluble fraction of the excrement. One of these, a polypeptide, contained nearly half of the total labelled carbon that was excreted and most of the activity was present in the aspartic acid portion of the compound; thus it appears that this insect can not only excrete amino acids but also it can synthesize and use them for the elimination of cyanide from their bodies.

Publisher

Canadian Science Publishing

Subject

General Medicine

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