Elemental composition and material properties of radular teeth in the heterobranch snailGastropteron rubrum (Mollusca, Gastropoda) foraging on hard organisms
Wencke Krings1,2,3,4*, Charlotte Neumann2,3, Stanislav N. Gorb4, Alexander Koehnsen1,2 , Heike Wägele5,
1 Department of Cariology, Endodontology and Periodontology, Universität Leipzig, Liebigstraße 12, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
2 Department of Electron Microscopy, Institute of Cell and Systems Biology of Animals, Universität Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
3 Department of Mammalogy and Palaeoanthropology, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
4 Department of Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Zoological Institute, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Am Botanischen Garten 1-9, 24118 Kiel, Germany
5 Department of Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Biology, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany
*corresponding author: wencke.krings@uni-hamburg.de