Lamellae in Sea Urchin Tooth

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Created 1/25/2010 6:00:00 AM

Lamellae between secondary plates in a tooth of the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus (right portion of the image). Oblique numerical section through 3D synchrotron microCT data set. 1.8 [mu/]m isotropic voxels. SR Stock, X Xiao and F De Carlo obtained the data at station 2-BM of the Advanced Photon Source.

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• Stuart R. Stock , Northwestern University