Chitin is the second most abundant biopolymer and functions as the main structural
component in a variety of living organisms. In nature, chitin rarely occurs in a pure form, but …

Biopolymers like cellulose, polysaccharides, chitosan, starch, chitin, and alginates have
sparked an increasing curiosity in creating natural replacements for synthetic polymers …

Molecular phylogeny indicates that metazoans (animals) emerged early in the
Neoproterozoic era, but physical evidence is lacking. The search for animal fossils from the …

Chitin is a linear polysaccharide of the amino sugar N-acetyl glucosamine. It is present in the
extracellular matrix of a variety of invertebrates including sponges, molluscs, nematodes and …

The growing demand for new, sophisticated, multifunctional materials has brought natural
structural composites into focus, since they underwent a substantial optimization during long …

Sedimentary organic matter derives from biological precursor material which undergoes
systematic, irreversible changes upon burial which mainly reflect increasing diagenetic …

To successfully survive in plants, endophytes need strategies to avoid being detected by the
plant immune system, as the cell walls of endophytes contain easily detectible chitin. It is …

In this mini-review, we shall first cover a short history of the discovery of chitin isolated from
sponges; as well as its evolutionarily ancient roots. Next, we will delve into the unique …

Chitin, a biopolymer of N-acetylglucosamine, is abundant in invertebrates and fungi and is
an important structural molecule [1, 2]. There has been a longstanding belief that vertebrates …

Precambrian fossils of fungi are sparse, and the knowledge of their early evolution and the
role they played in the colonization of land surface are limited. Here, we report the discovery …