Soft Dentin Results in Unique Flexible Teeth in Scraping Catfishes
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Soft dentin results in unique flexible teeth in scraping catfishes.
Teeth are generally used for actions in which they experience mainly compressive forces acting toward the base. The ordered tooth enamel(oid) and dentin structures contribute to the high compressive strength but also to the minor shear and tensile strengths. Some vertebrates, however, use their teeth for scraping, with teeth experiencing forces directed mostly normal to their long axis. Some sc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1522-2152,1537-5293
DOI: 10.1086/667532