Amorphous and crystalline calcium carbonate distribution in the tergite cuticle of moulting Porcellio scaber (Isopoda, Crustacea)

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 10-20

  Neues, Frank ^a   Hild, Sabine ^b,c   Epple, Matthias ^a   Marti, Othmar ^b   Ziegler, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biomineralization; Calcite amorphous calcium carbonate; Crustaceans; Cuticle; Moulting; Porcellio scaber; Woodlice

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; MAGNESIUM CALCITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CUTICLE; ISOPODA; MINERALIZATION; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; PORCELLIO SCABER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; CALCIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; CALCIUM CARBONATE; ISOPODA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLTING; POWDER DIFFRACTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRUSTACEA; ISOPODA; ONISCIDEA; PORCELLIO SCABER;

EID: 79956215024     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2011.03.019     Document Type: Article

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