Ultrastructure Methods in Cuticle Research

  • M. Locke
  • P. Huie
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Abstract

Insect cuticle was among the first biological objects studied by electron microscopy. Pore canals and lamellae were observed in hand-cut wedges of cockroach cuticle as early as 1942 (Richards and Anderson 1942). It was also found possible to view whole mounts of thin cuticle membranes such as those of tracheae and tracheoles (Richards and Korda 1950). The use of the electron microscope for cuticle problems has grown exponentially in the 1960s and 1970s from these early beginnings.

Keywords

Osmium Tetroxide Golgi Complex Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy Cuticular Protein Pore Canal 
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