Cuticular proteins from the blue crab alter in vitro calcium carbonate mineralization

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 349-360

  Coblentz, Francie E ^a,b   Shafer, Thomas H ^a   Roer, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcification; Callinectes sapidus; Cuticle; Mineralization; Post ecdysis; Proteins

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; CRYSTALLIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MINERALIZATION; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 0031699334     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(98)10117-7     Document Type: Article

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