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Item Restricted Phosphate Conjugation of Phenols in Musca Domestica and Costelytra Zealandica(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 1964) Heenan, Michael PerryIn this thesis the conjugation of phenols with phosphate to form mono-aryl phosphate esters is investigated as a mode of detoxication of phenols in flies, especially Musca domestica, and the grass grub, larval form of Costelytra zealandica, (White). The work is divided into three sections. (i) A preliminary survey in which insects were dosed with various phenols and whole body extracts and feces were examined for metabolites, especially the phosphates, using paper chromatographic techniques. (ii) Characterization of α - naphthyl, β - naphthyl, and p - nitrophenyl phosphate conjugates, eluted from chromatograms of extracts, by co-chromatography, ionophoresis and determination of U.V. spectra. (iii)A preliminary survey into possible occurence of an enzyme system catalysing the formation of aryl phosphates from phenols.