Translation for 'sclerotin' from English to Russian

sclerotin

склеротин {м}биохим.

• Sclerotin is a component of the cuticle of various Arthropoda, most familiarly insects.
• The white scales are composed of sclerotin, a modified form of the polymer chitin, and are whiter than paper or any artificial material produced so far.
• Sclerotization is a biochemical process that produces the rigid shell of sclerotin that comprises an insect's chitinous exoskeleton.
• The melanin/sclerotin biosynthetic pathway and its underlying genetic basis have been well studied.
• Males also own a triangular keel below the apex of the palpal bulb, females also have a sclerotized (hardened by sclerotin) area between the two sections of the spermathecae.