Chitino išskyrimas iš galvijinės sparvos (Tabanus bovinus L.)

Abstract

Investigations were carried out during 2018 in department of biotechnology and molecular biology, faculty of science and letters, Aksaray University, Turkey. The purpose of this study was to extract three-dimensional chitin from the eyes of horse-fly (T. bovinus), to isolate part of the eye from the head without damaging the corneal lens, and to determine the type of chitin. For the first time in the history of research three-dimensional chitin has been isolated, separated and photographed from the eyes of the horse-fly. The FT-IR analysis showed that corneal lens chitin was in the α –form