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Biomineralizations: insights and prospects from crustaceans

Abstract. For growing, crustaceans have to molt cyclically because of the presence of a rigid exoskeleton. Most of the crustaceans harden their cuticle not only by sclerotization, like all the arthropods, but also by calcification. All the physiology of crustaceans, including the calcification proce...

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Autor principal: Luquet, Gilles
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22536102
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.176.2318