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The giant keyhole limpet radular teeth: A naturally-grown harvest machine

The limpet radula is a feeding organ, which contains more than 100 rows of teeth. During their growth the teeth mature and advance in position along the radula. The simpler doccoglossan radulae operate by grinding rocky substrates, extracting the algae by rasping and scraping with the teeth function...

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Autores principales: Ukmar-Godec, Tina, Kapun, Gregor, Zaslansky, Paul, Faivre, Damien
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Academic Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4658332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26433029
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2015.09.021

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