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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Biomineralization by particle attachment in early animals.

Pupa U P A Gilbert, Susannah M Porter, Chang-Yu Sun, Shuhai Xiao, Brandt M Gibson, Noa Shenkar, Andrew H Knoll

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Pupa U P A GilbertDepartment of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706; pupa@physics.wisc.edu aknoll@oeb.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-0139-2099
Susannah M PorterDepartment of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.
Chang-Yu SunDepartment of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706.
Shuhai XiaoDepartment of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061.ORCID 0000-0003-4655-2663
Brandt M GibsonDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235.ORCID 0000-0001-9620-0063
Noa ShenkarSchool of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Science, Tel-Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel.
Andrew H KnollDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 20138 pupa@physics.wisc.edu aknoll@oeb.harvard.edu.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Crystallization by particle attachment (CPA) of amorphous precursors has been demonstrated in modern biomineralized skeletons across a broad phylogenetic range of animals. Precisely the same precursors, hydrated (ACC-H

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CnidariaEchinodermataMolluscaAnimalsAnimal ShellsBiomineralizationCalcium CarbonateFossilsCalcium Carbonatebiomineralizationcalcium carbonateparticle attachmentskeleton

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PMID31427519
PMCPMC6731633

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