TY  - GEN 
AU  - Harper, Elizabeth M.
AU  - Checa, Antonio G
PY  - 2020
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/64231
AB  - An organic-rich columnar prismatic outer shell layer, which extends far beyond the underlying nacre, has allowed pterioid
bivalves (the pearl oysters and their allies) to develop flexible valve margins, allowing a tight hermetic seal when shut. In...
LA  - eng
PB  - Spinger Heidelber
TI  - Tightly shut: flexible valve margins and microstructural asymmetry in pterioid bivalves
DO  - 10.1007/s00227-020-03693-y
ER  -