The skin of the humble sea cucumber has truly protean properties, Henry Gee reports.
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Szulgit,G. K. & Shadwick, R. E. Dynamic mechanical characterization of a mutable collagenous tissue: response of sea cucumber dermis to cell lysis and dermal extracts. Journal of Experimental Biology 203, 1539 - 1550 2000.
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Gee, H. What stiffens sea cucumbers?. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000518-6
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news000518-6