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SUBMITTER: Perez-Barberia FJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7188284 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pérez-Barbería F J FJ Guinness F E FE López-Quintanilla M M García A J AJ Gallego L L Cappelli J J Serrano M P MP Landete-Castillejos T T
PloS one 20200428 4
Cementum is a bone connective tissue that provides a flexible attachment for the tooth to the alveolar bone in many mammalian species. It does not undergo continuous remodelling, unlike non-dental bone, which combined with its growth pattern of seasonal layering makes this tissue uniquely suitable as a proxy for tracking changes in body repair investment throughout an animal´s life. We tested functional and sexual selection hypotheses on the rate of cementum deposition related to the highly poly ...[more]