| Ultrastructure, histochemistry, and mineralization patterns in the ecdysial suture of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus |
2009 |
4172 |
The ecdysial suture is the region on an arthropod exoskeleton that splits to allow the animal to escape from its old carapace. To understand why this region preferentially splits, I examined the morphology and composition of the intermolt and premolt... |