adult chitin-based cuticle development

id: GO:0008365
name: adult chitin-based cuticle development
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Synthesis and deposition of the chitin-based cuticle of adults following the apolysis of the pupal cuticle. The adult insect cuticle contains cuticullin, a protein epicuticle and a lamellate procuticle. An example of this process is adult chitin-based cuticle development in Drosophila melanogaster.

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