Biomineralization of calcified skeletons-in three Pacific coralline demosponges - An approach to the evolution of basal skeletons

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 201, 1997, Pages 371-383

  Reitner, Joachim ^a   Wörheide, Gert ^a   Lange, Robert ^a   Thiel, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acanthochaetetes; Archaeocyatha; Astrosclera; Biomineralization; Coralline demosponges; Evolution of basal skeletons; Vaceletia

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOCHAETETES; ARCHAEOCYATHA; ASTER; ASTROSCLERA; ASTROSCLERA WILLEYANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHAETETIDAE; STROMATOPOROIDEA;

ASTROCLERA WILLEYANA; BIOFILM; BIOMINERALIZATION; CORAL; MINERALIZATION; SPIRASTRELLA WELLSI; SPONGE; TAPHONOMY; VACELETIA;

BIOMINERALIZATION;

EID: 0031401056     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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