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A rapidly evolving secretome builds and patterns a sea shell

BACKGROUND: Instructions to fabricate mineralized structures with distinct nanoscale architectures, such as seashells and coral and vertebrate skeletons, are encoded in the genomes of a wide variety of animals. In mollusks, the mantle is responsible for the extracellular production of the shell, dir...

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Autores principales: Jackson, Daniel J, McDougall, Carmel, Green, Kathryn, Simpson, Fiona, Wörheide, Gert, Degnan, Bernard M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1676022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17121673
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-4-40