Functionalization of biomineral reinforcement in crustacean cuticle: Calcite orientation in the partes incisivae of the mandibles of Porcellio scaber and the supralittoral species Tylos europaeus (Oniscidea, Isopoda)

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 173-191

  Huber, Julia ^a   Griesshaber, Erika ^b   Nindiyasari, Fitriana ^b   Schmahl, Wolfgang W ^b   Ziegler, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cuticle; Graded biocrystal; High resolution EBSD; Isopoda; Mesocrystalline arrangement; Mosaic biocalcite

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; CHITIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMINERALIZATION; CRYSTAL; CUTICLE; ELECTRON BACKSCATTER DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FOOD; MANDIBLE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PORCELLIO SCABER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TYLOS EUROPAEUS; WOODLOUSE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ISOPODA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; ISOPODA; ONISCIDEA; PORCELLIO SCABER; TYLOS EUROPAEUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM PHOSPHATES; CHITIN; ISOPODA; MANDIBLE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84928700522     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2015.03.007     Document Type: Article

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