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Three-dimensional reconstruction of pore canals in the cuticle of the brown planthopper

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32001895, 31630057 and 31871954) and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2020M681874). BM was financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in cooperation with the National Natural Science Foundation of China (MO1714/10-1).

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  1. Institute of Insect Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China

    Dan-Ting Li, Xin-Qiu Wang & Chuan-Xi Zhang

  2. State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China

    Dan-Ting Li & Chuan-Xi Zhang

  3. Department of Pathology of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China

    Jian-Sheng Guo

  4. School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China

    Jian-Sheng Guo

  5. Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Inserm, Institute of Biology Valrose, Parc Valrose, 06108, Nice CEDEX 2, France

    Bernard Moussian

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Li, DT., Guo, JS., Wang, XQ. et al. Three-dimensional reconstruction of pore canals in the cuticle of the brown planthopper. Sci. China Life Sci. 64, 1992–1994 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-020-1857-7

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