MANHATTAN, KAN. -- Kansas State University researchers think their discovery of the enzyme involved in the hardening of a beetle's exoskeleton or cuticle could lead not only to better pest control, ...

The primitive compound eyes of a horseshoe crab are one the largest to be found in nature. In contrast to many insects and spiders that build their eyes from glassy proteins, the horseshoe crab uses ...

DURING an examination of the amino-acid composition of the larval cuticle of the blow-fly, Calliphora vomitoria, it was found that phenylalanine and tyrosine were readily removed by extraction with ...