How brachiopods get covered with nanometric silicon chips

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2004, Pages

  Lüter, Carsten ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brachiopod; Development; Discinidae; Discinisca cf. tenuis; Silicon; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

BRACHIOPOD; SILICON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; BRACHIOPODA; CELL; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; DISCINIDAE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROMETRY; INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR RADIATION; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

BRACHIOPODA;

EID: 17044376340     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0226     Document Type: Article

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