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CONSIDERABLE advances in our knowledge of sclerotin formation in the insect integument have been accompanied by little progress in our understanding of melanin formation. This seems to be due to confusion between the two processes of sclerotization and melanization.
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MALEK, S. Sclerotization and Melanization: Two Independent Processes in the Cuticle of the Desert Locust. Nature 180, 237 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180237a0
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