Characteristics of the Aragonitic Layer in Adult Oyster Shells, Crassostrea gigas: Structural Study of Myostracum including the Adductor Muscle Scar

Figure 3

The surface image of the central adductor muscle scar.

(a) (Scale bar: 30 μm), the area including the transitional zone (refer to Figure 1(b)) from the anterior to the scar side

(b) (Scale bar: 15 μm) and the area including the transitional zone from the scar to the posterior side

(c) (Scale bar of (i) and (ii) 30 μm; scale bar of (iii) 15 μm). The left valve of C. gigas was used (AMS: Adductor Muscle Scar, TZ: Transitional Zone, FL: Folia)