The architecture of the joint head cuticle and its transition to the arthrodial membrane in the terrestrial crustacean Porcellio scaber

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 22-35

  Ruangchai, Sukhum ^a   Reisecker, Christian ^b   Hild, Sabine ^b   Ziegler, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Amorphous calcium carbonate; Amorphous calcium phosphate; Calcite; Isopoda; Pereiopod basis; Raman spectroscopic imaging

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHITIN; MAGNESIUM; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CUTICLE; FIBER; MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PORCELLIO SCABER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; INSECT PROTEINS; ISOPODA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION;

CRUSTACEA; ISOPODA; PORCELLIO SCABER;

EID: 84875050153     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2013.01.009     Document Type: Article

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