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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A larval insect in the stage just preceding pupation.

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  • Different letters indicate significant differences of the survival rates (p More specifically, during the prepupa-pupa metamorphosis, 27% and 13% of individuals (about 32 and 16 individuals in three experiments, respectively) injected with dsRNAs for

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