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Using a shell as a wing: pairing of dissimilar appendages in atlantiid heteropod swimming

Ferhat Karakas, Daniel D'Oliveira, Amy E. Maas, David W. Murphy
Journal: Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2018) 221 (23): jeb192062.
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.192062
Published: 7 December 2018
...Ferhat Karakas; Daniel D'Oliveira; Amy E. Maas; David W. Murphy ABSTRACT Atlantiid heteropods are zooplanktonic marine snails which have a calcium carbonate shell and single swimming fin. They actively swim to hunt prey and vertically migrate. Previous accounts of atlantiid heteropod swimming...
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Reversibly labile, sclerotization-induced elastic properties in a keratin analog from marine snails: whelk egg capsule biopolymer (WECB)

H. Scott Rapoport, Robert E. Shadwick
Journal: Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2007) 210 (1): 12–26.
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.02613
Published: 1 January 2007
... The Company of Biologists Limited 2007 2007 whelk egg capsule biopolymer elastomer mechanical properties marine snail We investigated the mechanical properties of an unusual protein polymer,made by marine whelks, in order to understand the relationship between the biogenesis of a complex...
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