Ultrastructural Changes Associated with Reversible Stiffening in Catch Connective Tissue of Sea Cucumbers

• Masaki Tamori ,

  * E-mail: mtamori@bio.titech.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kinji Ishida,

  Affiliation The Center for Electron Microscopy & Bio-imaging Research, Central Research Laboratories, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

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• Eri Matsuura,

  Affiliation The Center for Electron Microscopy & Bio-imaging Research, Central Research Laboratories, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

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• Katsutoshi Ogasawara,

  Affiliation The Center for Electron Microscopy & Bio-imaging Research, Central Research Laboratories, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

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• Tomohito Hanasaka,

  Affiliation The Center for Electron Microscopy & Bio-imaging Research, Central Research Laboratories, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

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• Yasuhiro Takehana,

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Microbial Chemistry (BIKAKEN), Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tatsuo Motokawa,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tokuji Osawa

  Affiliation Kyushu Nutrition Welfare University, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan

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