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The main goal of the subjects contained in this chapter is eventually to work out from first principles how the arthropod skeleton is assembled.
“It seems unlikely that such an exact periodic structure should be the result of cyclical secretion by living cells. It is much more probable that it arises spontaneously by crystallization within the substance of the cuticle.” V. B. Wigglesworth (1948b)
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Neville, A.C. (1975). Supermolecular Architecture. In: Biology of the Arthropod Cuticle. Zoophysiology and Ecology, vol 4/5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80910-1_5
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