On the Origins of Fracture Toughness in Advanced Teleosts: How the Swordfish Sword's Bone Structure and Composition Allow for Slashing under Water to Kill or Stun Prey

The osseous sword of a swordfish (Xiphias gladius) is specialized to incapacitate prey with stunning blows. Considering the sword's growth and maturation pattern, aging from the sword's base to the tip, while missing a mechanosensitive osteocytic network, an in‐depth understanding of its m...

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Autores principales: Schmidt, Felix N., Zimmermann, Elizabeth A., Walsh, Flynn, Plumeyer, Christine, Schaible, Eric, Fiedler, Imke A. K., Milovanovic, Petar, Rößle, Manfred, Amling, Michael, Blanchet, Clément, Gludovatz, Bernd, Ritchie, Robert O., Busse, Björn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6662059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31380168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.201900287

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