Biochemical characteristics of the soluble organic matrix from the shell of three Recent terebratulid brachiopod species

Fossils and Strata

Volumn , Issue 54, 2008, Pages 269-275

  Gaspard, Danièle ^a   Marie, Benjamin ^b   Luquet, Gilles ^b   Marin, Frédéric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Biominerals; Brachiopods; Calcium binding; Diagenesis; Electrophoresis; Granules; Low magnesium calcite; Organic sheath; Protein; Rhynchonelliformea; Soluble organic matrix

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959592100     PISSN: 03009491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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