Dinosaurian soft tissues interpreted as bacterial biofilms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Kaye, Thomas G ^a   Gaugler, Gary ^b   Sawlowicz, Zbigniew ^c  

^a Departments of Mammalogy and Paleontology   (United States)

^b Microtechnica Inc   (United States)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; IRON; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BLOOD CELL; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL ANIMAL; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOCYTE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOFT TISSUE; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TRABECULAR BONE; ANIMAL; BONE; CHEMISTRY; FEMUR; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DINOSAURIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; BONE AND BONES; DINOSAURS; FEMUR; FOSSILS; IRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OSTEOCYTES; OXYGEN; PALEONTOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 50949119798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002808     Document Type: Article

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