Mandibular gnathobases of marine planktonic copepods – feeding tools with complex micro- and nanoscale composite architectures

• Jan Michels and
• Stanislav N. Gorb

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 674–685, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.68

• damage, and it is conceivable that their development has favoured the copepods’ dominance of the marine zooplankton observed today. Keywords: crystalline silica; diatom frustule; mandibular gnathobase; marine planktonic copepod; resilin; Review Significance of copepods in marine pelagic food webs

• shown in Figure 1d, indicating the location of the five pairs of mouthparts of Temora longicornis. A2 = second antenna, Md = mandible, Gn = mandibular gnathobase, Mx1 = first maxilla, Mx2 = second maxilla, Mxp = maxilliped. (Only one mouthpart of each pair is marked.) (b) Confocal laser scanning