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Hydration affects the physical and mechanical properties of baleen tissue

Baleen, an anisotropic oral filtering tissue found only in the mouth of mysticete whales and made solely of alpha-keratin, exhibits markedly differing physical and mechanical properties between dried or (as in life) hydrated states. On average baleen is 32.35% water by weight in North Atlantic right...

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Autores principales: Werth, Alexander J., Harriss, Robert W., Rosario, Michael V., George, J. Craig, Sformo, Todd L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5099004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27853579
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160591