Ossification Vesicles with Calcium Phosphate in the Eyes of the Insect Copium teucrii (Hemiptera: Tingidae) by Javier Garcia-Guinea, Alberto Jorge, Laura Tormo, Marta Furio, Elena Crespo-Feo, Virgilio Correcher, Pedro Prado-Herrero, Ana C. Soria, Jesus Sanz, Jose L. Nieves-Aldrey

“…The spectrometric and microscopic images reveal that the calcium-phosphate mineralization is formed and constrained to Copium ommatidia, which are both matrix vesicles generating mixtures of apatite collagen and operational compound eyes of the insect.…”
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