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The skeletome of the red coral Corallium rubrum indicates an independent evolution of biomineralization process in octocorals
BACKGROUND: The process of calcium carbonate biomineralization has arisen multiple times during metazoan evolution. In the phylum Cnidaria, biomineralization has mostly been studied in the subclass Hexacorallia (i.e. stony corals) in comparison to the subclass Octocorallia (i.e. red corals); the two...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7853314/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33514311 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-020-01734-0 |