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At the ultrastructural level, a trilaminate structure, designated as the epicuticle, is always present on the outermost surface of the nematodeCaenorhabditis elegans. The freeze-fracture technique revealed the existence of two fracture faces: an inner face that showed homogeneously distributed particles and an outer fracture face that was almost completely smooth in adult nematodes but appeared delicately granular in the dauer forms.
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Peixoto, C.A., De Souza, W. Freeze-fracture characterization of the cuticle of adult and dauer forms ofCaenorhabditis elegans . Parasitol Res 80, 53–57 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00932624
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