Antibody labelling of resilin in energy stores for jumping in plant sucking insects.
The rubbery protein resilin appears to form an integral part of the energy storage structures that enable many insects to jump by using a catapult mechanism. In plant sucking bugs that jump (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha), the energy generated by the slow contractions of huge thoracic jumping muscles i...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011
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