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Cuticular Water Relations Techniques

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Cuticle Techniques in Arthropods

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This chapter is restricted, because of the author’s interests and experience, to the techniques involved in studying the water relations of the cuticle of terrestrial arthropods. Thus, purely aquatic Arthropoda such as most Crustacea, the Xiphosura, and insects in their aquatic stages will be ignored in the following treatment. This will certainly seem arbitrary to some workers, but even within the Insecta there is a great diversity of cuticle structure and function, so much so that Beament (1976) has warned against the tendency to talk of “the cuticle” as if there were only one model—that arising from biophysical studies remote from the ecology of the animal.

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Loveridge, J.P. (1980). Cuticular Water Relations Techniques. In: Miller, T.A. (eds) Cuticle Techniques in Arthropods. Springer Series in Experimental Entomology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6076-9_9

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