Carminic acid dye from the homopteran Da
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Fidel de la Cruz Hernández-Hernández; Fernando García-Gil de Muñoz; Alberto Roja
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The activation of __Dactylopius coccus__ (Costa) hemolymph with microbial polysaccharide molecules was studied. Hemolymph incubated in the presence of laminarin, zymosan, and N‐acetyl glucosamine produced a dark fibrillar precipitated, and the red pigment (carminic acid) was consumed (m