Animal Cuticles

Palaeobiology II

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 259-261

  Stankiewicz, B A ^a   Briggs, D E G ^b  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA; Fossils; Homo sapiens; Ice man; Proteins

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844349594     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470999295ch.57     Document Type: Chapter

References (6)

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2. Briggs, D.E.G., Evershed, R.P. and Stankiewicz, B.A. (1998) The molecular preservation of fossil arthropod cuticles. Ancient Biomolecules 2, 135-146.
3. Muzzarelli, R.A.A. (1977) Chitin. Pergamon Press, New York.
4. Neville, A.C. (1993) Biology of fibrous composites. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
5. Stankiewicz, B.A., Briggs, D.E.G., Evershed, R.P., Miller, R.F. and Bierstedt, A. (1998a) The fate of chitin in Quaternary and Tertiary strata. In: B.A. Stankiewicz and P.F. van Bergen, eds. Nitrogen-containing macromolecules in the biosphere and geosphere, pp. 211-225. American Chemical Society Symposium Series No. 707.
6. Stankiewicz, B.A., Scott, A.C., Collinson, M.E., Finch, P., Mosle, B., Briggs, D.E.G. and Evershed, R.P. (1998b) The molecular taphonomy of arthropod and plant cuticles from the Carboniferous of North America. Journal of the Geological Society 155, 453-462.