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Yes, it turns: experimental evidence of pearl rotation during its formation

Cultured pearls are human creations formed by inserting a nucleus and a small piece of mantle tissue into a living shelled mollusc, usually a pearl oyster. Although many pearl observations intuitively suggest a possible rotation of the nucleated pearl inside the oyster, no experimental demonstration...

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Autores principales: Gueguen, Yannick, Czorlich, Yann, Mastail, Max, Le Tohic, Bruno, Defay, Didier, Lyonnard, Pierre, Marigliano, Damien, Gauthier, Jean-Pierre, Bari, Hubert, Lo, Cedrik, Chabrier, Sébastien, Le Moullac, Gilles
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4632584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26587271
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150144