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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| Formato: | Journal article |
| Idioma: | English |
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BioMed Central
2006
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