Preservation of the shell matrix protein dermatopontin in 1500 year old land snail fossils from the Bonin islands

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1742-1746

  Sarashina, Isao ^a   Kunitomo, Yoshiki ^a   Iijima, Minoru ^a   Chiba, Satoshi ^b   Endo, Kazuyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING CURVES; BULK PROPERTIES; DIAGENETIC ALTERATIONS; IMMUNOLOGICAL ASSAYS; LAND SNAILS; ORGANIC MOLECULES; SHELL MATRIX PROTEINS; VERTEBRATE FOSSILS; X-RAY DIFFRACTIONS;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; PROTEINS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; IMMUNOASSAY; MICROSTRUCTURE; PRESERVATION; PROTEIN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHELL; SNAIL; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ASIA; BONIN ISLANDS; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

EUHADRA BRANDTII; INVERTEBRATA; MANDARINA; MANDARINA AUREOLA; STYLOMMATOPHORA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 56349117465     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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