Microstructure of dental hard tissues and bone in the Tuatara Dentary, Sphenodon punctatus (Diapsida: Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia)

Frontiers of Oral Biology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2009, Pages 80-85

  Kieser, J A ^a   Tkatchenko, T ^a   Dean, M C ^c   Jones, M E H ^c   Duncan, W ^a   Nelson, N J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANINE TOOTH; CEMENTUM; DENTIN; ENAMEL; HISTOLOGY; JAW; MANDIBLE; REPTILE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALVEOLAR PROCESS; ANIMALS; CUSPID; DENTAL CEMENTUM; DENTAL ENAMEL; DENTIN; MANDIBLE; REPTILES;

EID: 77649207820     PISSN: 14202433     EISSN: 16623770     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000242396     Document Type: Conference Paper

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