Naturally occurring interdigitation includes skull sutures that develop during periods of brain growth, and which remain thin and straight, and later develop complex fractal interdigitations that provide interlocking strength.
The distal convoluted tubule (DCT), a portion of kidney nephron, can be recognized by several distinct features, including lateral membrane interdigitations with neighboring cells.
[3] Some hypotheses contend that crown shyness, the interdigitation of canopy branches, leads to "reciprocal pruning" of adjacent trees.
[6] A similar interdigitation process involves investigating dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations by adding alcohol molecules to the bilayers of double-tail lipids.
[7] Pressure-induced interdigitation is used to study hydrostatic pressure of bicellular dispersions containing anionic lipids.