Cuticular sclerotization in insects
- 1 April 1996
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Vol. 113 (4) , 689-705
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-0491(95)02089-6
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