Molluscan Shell Proteins: Primary Structure, Origin, and Evolution

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 80, Issue , 2007, Pages 209-276

  Marin, Frédéric ^a   Luquet, Gilles ^a   Marie, Benjamin ^a   Medakovic, Davorin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BONE MINERALIZATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLLUSC; PH; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CALCIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLLUSCA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS;

EID: 35348886006     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2153(07)80006-8     Document Type: Review

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