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A PERITROPHIC membrane, in the form of loosely connected concentric layers of substance wrapping the ingesta, has long been described in the mid-gut of different classes of arthropods (insects, myriapods, Crustacea and onychophora).
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DE METS, R. Submicroscopic Structure of the Peritrophic Membrane in Arthropods. Nature 196, 77–78 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/196077a0
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