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Plate-like permanent dental laminae of upper jaw dentition in adult gobiid fish, Sicyopterus japonicus

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Sicyopterus japonicus (Teleostei, Gobiidae) possesses a unique upper jaw dentition different from that known for any other teleosts. In the adults, many (up to 30) replacement teeth, from initiation to attachment, are arranged orderly in a semicircular-like strand within a capsule of connective tissue on the labial side of each premaxillary bone. We have applied histological, ultrastructural, and three-dimensional imaging from serial sections to obtain insights into the distribution and morphological features of the dental lamina in the upper jaw dentition of adult S. japonicus. The adult fish has numerous permanent dental laminae, each of which is an infolding of the oral epithelium at the labial side of the functional tooth and forms a thin plate-like structure with a wavy contour. All replacement teeth of a semicircular-like strand are connected to the plate-like dental lamina by the outer dental epithelium and form a tooth family; neighboring tooth families are completely separated from each other. The new tooth germ directly buds off from the ventro-labial margin of the dental lamina, whereas no distinct free end of the dental lamina is present, even adjacent to this region. Cell proliferation concentrated at the ventro-labial margin of the dental lamina suggests that this region is the site for repeated tooth initiation. During tooth development, the replacement tooth migrates along a semicircular-like strand and eventually erupts through the dental lamina into the oral epithelium at the labial side of the functional tooth. This unique thin plate-like permanent dental lamina and the semicircular-like strand of replacement teeth in the upper jaw dentition of adult S. japonicus probably evolved as a dental adaptation related to the rapid replacement of teeth dictated by the specialized feeding habit of this algae-scraping fish.

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The authors thank Mr. Shojiro Fukui for the collection of the specimens and his comments about Sicyopterus japonicus.

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  1. Department of Hard Tissue Research, Graduate School of Oral Medicine, Matsumoto Dental University, Nagano, Shiojiri, 399-0781, Japan

    Keita Moriyama & Noriyuki Sahara

  2. Division of Marine Life Science, Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Minamidai, Nakano 1-15-1, Tokyo, 164-8639, Japan

    Shun Watanabe & Midori Iida

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Moriyama, K., Watanabe, S., Iida, M. et al. Plate-like permanent dental laminae of upper jaw dentition in adult gobiid fish, Sicyopterus japonicus . Cell Tissue Res 340, 189–200 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00441-010-0935-2

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