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Summary
Females of Ascaris lumbricoides excrete in their eggs during a 5 days'starvation period at 37°C under aerobic conditions, a noticeable amount of ether soluble material, indicating the presence of a fat metabolism of some intensity. The sum of the ether extracts derived from the body and the eggs of the starved worms corresponds closely to that found in unstarved'worms, showing that during the starvation period no fat had been used for the production of energy.
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