UTokyo Open Lectures: Bones
Held on 2010

UTokyo Open Lectures: Bones

The mechanisms shellfish and pearls use to create their “skeletons”
Hiromichi Nagasawa

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Invertebrates possess hard shells and this is what determines their body shape. Shellfish as elastic animals have shells in order to protect their molluscous soft bodies from predators. In this lecture we will consider the mechanism for the formation of these skeletal structures.

講師紹介
Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences
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