Total 28 isolates were recovered from
chitinous rich bulk soil and agriculture land.
The spent pupas were dried, crushed manually and the
chitinous matter was removed.
Terrestrial salamanders evaluate size and
chitinous content of arthropod prey.
The chironomid larval assemblages, represented by their
chitinous head capsules preserved in lake sediments, have become a widely used paleoclimatological indicator group for quantitatively reconstructing past temperatures, especially at high latitudes and altitudes (e.g., Larocque and Bigler, 2004; Fallu et al., 2005; Axford et al., 2009).
As argued by Toft (1980), ant-specialist species tend to eat slower and
chitinous prey, whereas those who are non-ant-specialists tend to eat faster-moving prey such as cockroaches, crickets and spiders.
When the body of an instar has grown too large for its exoskeleton, the rigid
chitinous and calcareous valves are moulted.
The halkieriids bore conical mollusk-like shells as well as calcareous structures similar to the
chitinous bristles typical of polychaete annelid worms.
The mouth sub terminally situated, strongly was
chitinous and armed.
ghanensis) from the same specimens was probably due to the
chitinous exoskeleton of these mites making them resilient and resistant and would take a longer time to be destroyed, engulfed, and digested by the macrophages and giant cells.
Farris, "The full-length phylogenetic tree from 1551 ribosomal sequences of
chitinous fungi, Fungi," Mycological Research, vol.
