Specimens were photographed with a Canon 600D Camera mounted on a Zeiss- Stemi 2000. Serial paraffin and semithin sections were analyzed with an Olympus microscope (BX-51) and photographed with an Olympus camera (Olympus cc12) equipped with the dot slide system (2.2 Olympus, Hamburg) and aligned using Imod [71 (link)] and Imod align (http://www.q-terra.de/biowelt/3drekon/guides/imod_first_aid.pdf). 3D- reconstruction of histological sections were performed using Fiji (1.45b) [72 (link)]/ trakem [73 (link)] and Amira (5.0). 3D reconstructions and volume renderings of the μCT scans were performed using Amira 5.0.
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