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Although common in invertebrate animals extracellular secreted structural materials wholely separate from the soma are uncommon in the vertebrates. Keratinized structures for example are intracellular and for their functional life part of the animal epidermal organization.
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Hunt, S. (1985). The Selachian Egg Case Collagen. In: Bairati, A., Garrone, R. (eds) Biology of Invertebrate and Lower Vertebrate Collagens. NATO ASI Series, vol 93. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7636-1_36
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