Discovery of 505-million-year old chitin in the basal demosponge Vauxia gracilenta

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ehrlich, H ^a   Rigby, J Keith ^b   Botting, J P ^c   Tsurkan, M V ^d   Werner, C ^d   Schwille, P ^e   Petrasek Z ^e   Pisera, A ^f   Simon, P ^g   Sivkov, V N ^h   Vyalikh, D V ⁱ   Molodtsov, S L ^a,j   Kurek, D ^k   Kammer, M ⁱ   Hunoldt, S ⁱ   Born, R ^l   Stawski, D ^m   Steinhof, A ⁿ   Bazhenov, V V ^a   Geisler, T ^o  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Leeds Museum Discovery Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

^h INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^j EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

^k INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING   (Russian Federation)

^l EKF Diagnostics   (Germany)

^m LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

ⁿ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^o UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHITIN; FOSSILS; POLYSACCHARIDES; PORIFERA;

EID: 84890612280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03497     Document Type: Article

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