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Platystomos albinus

Colors represent varied affinity of
the insect’s exoskeleton to chitin-binding dyes reflecting
different structural properties of chitin.

Contributed by Igor Siwanowicz,
Janelia Farm Research Campus, Virginia, USA.

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Controlled flight of a biologically inspired, insect-scale robot. Ma KY. et al. (2013). Science 340: 603-607.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6132/603

Barcoding cells using cell-surface programmable DNA-binding domains. Mali P. et al. (2013). Nature Methods 10: 403-406.
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v10/n5/full/nmeth.2407.html

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