Testing shows billfish demonstrate bone remodeling without osteocytes

Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - 13:00 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) —A large team of biologists with members from Israel, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. has found that billfish are able to remodel their large protruding jawbones in the absence of osteocytes. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes their research and results and the implications of what they found.

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