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Table 3.1 (Continued)
Species Reference
Crithidia fasciculata Janakidevi et al., 1965
Entamoeba sp. Lopez-Peville and Gomez-Domingues, 1985
Leishmania major Rodrigues et al., 2002a; Moreno et al., 2000
Tetrahymena pyriformis Rosenberg, 1966
Trypanosoma brucei Moreno et al., 2000
Trypanosoma cruzi Ruiz et al., 2001a

Flowering plants
Cotton, seeds Asamov and Valikhanov, 1972; Valikhanov et al.,
1980
Cuscuta reflexa Tewari and Singh, 1964
Deschampsia flexiosa Nassery, 1969
Banksia ornata, roots and Jeffrey, 1964
stems
Lemna minor Inh¨ulsen and Niemeyer, 1975; Niemeyer, 1975
Maize, roots Vagabov and Kulaev, 1964
Malus domestica (apple), Schmidt, 1971, 1972; Schmidt and Buban, 1971
leaves
Solanum lycopersicum Khomlyak and Grodzinskii, 1970, 1972; Klein, 1952
(tomato), leaves, hypocotils
Spinacea oleracea (spinach), Miyachi, 1961
leaves
Triticum vulgare (wheat), Wang and Manchini, 1966
leaves
Urtica dioica Nassery, 1969

of higher animals and plants (Ebel, 1952c; Korchagin, 1954; Lohmann, 1958) should not
be regarded as evidence for their inability to synthesize and accumulate these compounds
under suitable conditions of growth or in separate cell compartments.
With regard to animals, PolyPs were found in the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri
(Imsiecke et al., 1996) and in some insects, namely the imago stage of Blaberus cranifera
(Kulaev et al., 1974c), larvae of Deilephila euphorbiae (Heller et al., 1950; Heller,1953,
1954) and Galeria mellonella (Niemerko, 1950, 1953; Niemierko and Niemierko,1950),
excretions of Achroca grissela (Pierpoint, 1957c), Celleria euphorbiae (Heller, 1953),and
Galeria mellonella (Niemierko, 1950, 1953, Niemierko and Niemierko,1950; Wojtezak,
1954; Pierpoint, 1957c).
PolyPs were also observed in embryos of frog Rana japonica (Shiokawa and Yamana,
1965) and different tissues of mammalians (Grossman and Lang, 1962; Penniall and Griffin,
1964; Griffin et al., 1965; Gabel, 1971; Gabel and Thomas, 1971; Mansurova et al., 1975a;
Kumble and Kornberg, 1995; Lorenz et al., 1997b; Leyhausen et al., 1998; Kornberg, 1999;
Schr¨oder et al., 1999, 2000). Thus, it can be seen that PolyPs are very widespread in living
organisms at different stages of evolution.