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