TY - JOUR
AU1 - Yokoo, Naoki
AU2 - Suzuki, Michio
AU3 - Saruwatari, Kazuko
AU4 - Aoki, Hideo
AU5 - Watanabe, Katsuaki
AU6 - Nagasawa, Hiromichi
AU7 - Kogure, Toshihiro
AB - American Mineralogist, Volume 96, pages 1020–1027, 2011 Microstructures of the larval shell of a pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata, investigated by FIB-TEM technique 1, 1 1 2 1 Naoki Yokoo , * Michio Suzuki , k azuko S ari t a aruw , h ideo a oki , k tS a uaki w aN t a abe , 3 1 h iroMichi NagaSa w a , aNd t oShihiro k ogure Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Mie Prefecture Fisheries Research Institute, 3564-3 Hamajima, Hamajima-cho, Shima-city, Mie 517-0404, Japan Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan a bStract The structure of the larval shell of a pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata, has been investigated at several growing stages mainly using the focused ion beam (FIB) sample preparation technique and transmis- sion electron microscopy (TEM). Until 12 h from fertilization, the larva does not have any calcified shells. After 18 h from fertilization, the embryo is covered with the first shell made of aragonite with the c-axis normal to the shell. The cross-sectional 
TI - Microstructures of the larval shell of a pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata, investigated by FIB-TEM technique
JF - American Mineralogist
DO - 10.2138/am.2011.3657
DA - 2011-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/de-gruyter/microstructures-of-the-larval-shell-of-a-pearl-oyster-pinctada-fucata-NbH8QghJYQ
SP - 1020
EP - 1027
VL - 96
IS - 7
DP - DeepDyve
ER -