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Sources of chitin

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There are ten main sources of chitin found in nature:

Plants & fungus
  • Fungi – phycomycetes, basidiomycetes, ascomycetes
Animals
  • Protozoans (unicellular animals) – Cilliatea, Sporozoa, Sarcodina, Mastigophora
  • Arachnids
  • Arthropods – crab, shrimp, lobster
  • Myriapods
  • Seaweed – green algae
  • Insects – locust, silkworm (chrysalis), mosquito, butterfly
  • Coelenterates – hydrozoa, scyphozoan, actinozoan
  • Molluscs – Gasteropods, Mellibranch, Scaphopoda, Cephalopods, Amphineura
  • Annelids – Archinnelida, Chaetopoda, Hirudinea

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  1. ^ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Orrego/publication/288824396/figure/fig11/AS:613864764878849@1523368173257/Examples-of-natural-chitin-sources.png
  2. ^ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4377977/
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