Discusses arthropods, a diverse group of animals characterized by jointed legs, exoskeletons, and segmented bodies. It ...

Arthropods are the most species-rich group of animals on Earth. There are four classes of arthropods alive today: insects, crustaceans, chelicerates (which include spiders and scorpions) and ...

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 ...