Research article

Resilin and chitinous cuticle form a composite structure for energy storage in jumping by froghopper insects

Malcolm Burrows¹^*, Stephen R Shaw² and Gregory P Sutton¹

¹ Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK

² Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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BMC Biology 2008, 6:41 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-6-41

Published: 30 September 2008

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Appendix. Estimate of the stiffness of the resilin part of the pleural arch.

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