早在1811年,法国南锡科学院的植物院主任,自然史教授Braconnot首次报道了关于几丁的研究。在此之后的一个半世纪内,围绕几丁进行了大量基础工作〔例如1859年Rouget发现脱乙酰几丁〕,但目前可得的大部分资料是1950年以后的文献。Richard关于节肢动物外壳的博学著作确实成了几丁动物学研究的起点。而1957年Tracey关于几丁的综述记述了一系列检测和定量分析几丁的初步尝试。1963 As early as 1811, Braconnot, director of the Institute of Botany, Nancy Academy of Sciences in France, and natural history professor, first reported on the study of chinchillas. In the one and a half centuries since then, a great deal of basic work has been done on chineses [eg, the discovery of chitosan in Rouget in 1859], but much of what is available now is the literature from 1950 onward. Richard’s erudite work on the arthropod shell has indeed been the starting point for the study of chintixism. Tracey’s review of chitin in 1957 described a series of preliminary attempts to detect and quantify chitin. 1963