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The present study was conducted to identify where dietary proteins are digested and where the digested amino acids are absorbed in the midgut of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Analysis by electrophoresis on SDS-polyacrylamide gels shows that few of the protein bands existing in the artificial diet were found among the contents of the foremost part of the midgut; instead, this region contained a cluster...