Quantitative microstructural studies of the armor of the marine threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 318-331

  Song, Juha ^a   Reichert, Steffen ^b   Kallai, Ilan ^c   Gazit, Dan ^c,e   Wund, Matthew ^d   Boyce, Mary C ^a   Ortiz, Christine ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Armored fish; Biomineralization; Exoskeleton; Micro computed tomography; Natural armor; Stickleback

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE DENSITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENERGY; FISH; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GEOMETRY; MARINE SPECIES; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGIDITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOPOGRAPHY; X RAY ANALYSIS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; CHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPECTROMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77955088990     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2010.04.009     Document Type: Article

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