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FOR many years comparisons of moulting cycles in the Arthropoda have suffered from lack of a generally accepted terminology. The most ambiguous word, especially for Insecta, has been “moult”, which has been used to denote two completely different events in the cycle.
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JENKIN, P., HINTON, H. Apolysis in Arthropod Moulting Cycles. Nature 211, 871 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211871a0
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