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SUBMITTER: Sviben S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7304823 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sviben Sanja S Spaeker Oliver O Bennet Mathieu M Albéric Marie M Dirks Jan-Henning JH Moussian Bernard B Fratzl Peter P Bertinetti Luca L Politi Yael Y
ACS applied materials & interfaces 20200526 23
The geometrical similarity of helicoidal fiber arrangement in many biological fibrous extracellular matrices, such as bone, plant cell wall, or arthropod cuticle, to that of cholesteric liquid mesophases has led to the hypothesis that they may form passively through a mesophase precursor rather than by direct cellular control. In search of direct evidence to support or refute this hypothesis, here, we studied the process of cuticle formation in the tibia of the migratory locust, <i>Locusta migra ...[more]