Functional diversity of resilin in Arthropoda

• Jan Michels,
• Esther Appel and
• Stanislav N. Gorb

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1241–1259, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.115

• outstanding properties. Keywords: biological materials; biomechanics; composites; elastomeric proteins; functional morphology; Review Resilin – the pliant protein Elastomeric proteins occur in a large range of organisms and biological structures, and the spectrum of their biological functions is very broad

• elastomeric proteins existing in arthropods. The first description of resilin, which has often been called rubber-like protein, was based on analyses of three different insect exoskeleton elements: the wing hinge and the prealar arm of the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) (also described for the