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Cellulose and hemicellulose digestion by herbivorous terrestrial crustaceans
Cellulose, the main component of plant cell walls, is insoluble and difficult to digest enzymatically. This research discovered that herbivorous land crabs have an efficient gastric mill in the stomach which disrupts this insoluble material, and a range of highly specialised enzymes that can then break down the cellulose.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Deakin University, Victoria, 2010.Degree name
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