Needles and pins: Acicular crystalline periostracal calcification in venerid bivalves (Bivalvia: Veneridae)

Journal of Molluscan Studies

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 157-179

  Glover, Emily A ^a   Taylor, John D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CALCIFICATION; CLADISTICS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYLOGENY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BIVALVIA; CHIONE (BIVALVE); COMPSOMYAX SUBDIAPHANA; DOSINIINAE; GAFRARIUM; GOMPHINA; MERCENARIA; MERCENARIA MERCENARIA; MYSIA UNDATA; PITAR; TIVELA; VENERIDAE; VENEROIDA; VENUS VERRUCOSA;

EID: 77951999960     PISSN: 02601230     EISSN: 14643766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mollus/eyp054     Document Type: Article

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