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Optimal designs of mollusk shells from bivalves to snails

Bivalve, ammonite and snail shells are described by a small number of geometrical parameters. Raup noted that the vast majority of theoretically possible shell forms do not occur in nature. The constraint factors that regulate the biased distribution of natural form have long since been an open prob...

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Autores principales: Okabe, Takuya, Yoshimura, Jin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5301254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28186171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep42445