1 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Valie-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan, Iran 2 Center for Research and Education of Agriculture and Natural Resources of Kerman ...

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Beneath that coating is what they call the impact region, which consists of a chitin layer in a herringbone pattern (chitin is the hard, sugar-based material that makes up the animal’s shell).