Calcium sulfate hemihydrate is the inorganic mineral in statoliths of Scyphozoan medusae (Cnidaria)

Dalton Transactions

Volumn , Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1545-1550

  Becker, Alexander ^a   Sötje, Ilka ^b   Paulmann, Carsten ^b   Beckmann, Felix ^c   Donath, Tilman ^c   Boese, Roland ^a   Prymak, Oleg ^a   Tiemann, Henry ^b   Epple, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC MINERALS; SEA-LIVING ORGANISMS; STATOLITHS;

ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROORGANISMS; MINERALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS;

CALCIUM SULFATE;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATE; HISTOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM SULFATE; CNIDARIA;

EID: 18144398597     PISSN: 14779226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b416246c     Document Type: Review

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